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A Christchurch couple want to lay claim to $232k cash they found tucked away in their ceiling in five dusty, vacuum sealed plastic bricks. Audio

Police say the money is probably "tainted" and should be handed to the Crown.

The boy died from his injuries and two other victims were seriously hurt.

The defence case opened today for a man facing multiple sexual assault charges, with his lawyer saying the defence is simply that his client always believed the interactions were consensual.

The jury at the murder trial of an Auckland eye surgeon have heard evidence of how his wife could have died.

Rubashkyn pleaded guilty to the charges in June.

The 79-year-old was arrested during an investigation into accusations of sex offending when he was part of the secretive sect.

Philip Polkinghorne was the one in the relationship to deal with finances, his former accountant has told the jury.

There were highly charged scenes in the Hamilton District Court this afternoon as whānau of an 8-year-old boy who died after a violent altercation threatened the accused when he appeared in the dock.

There was contamination of a blood-like marking in the home of Philip Polkinghorne in the two years between tests, Crown prosecutors have suggested.

John Hope Muchirahondo is facing more than 30 charges, including rape and sexual violation.

A man and woman charged with the murder of a man in Auckland's Mt Wellington on the weekend have been granted interim name suppression.

All seats in the gallery were full for the sixth week of Polkinghorne's murder trial at the High Court in Auckland.

The faith must pay costs to the Crown after unsuccessfully fighting to be excluded from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Prosecutors need to look at a range of factors, a process complicated by the fact the Bayesian is under "quite a considerable" volume of water.

A man blackmailed another man he met through Tinder, threatening to tell his family about his sexual preferences, a court has heard.

Stuart Wellesley Parkinson's herd was suffering from "severe malnutrition" and standing in bare, muddy paddocks.

A Black Power member who shot at a gang rival outside the hospital - sending it into lockdown - has been jailed.