In 1954 Christchurch woman Honorah Parker was murdered while on a walk in the Port Hills.  The culprits? Her daughter Pauline, 15 and best friend Juliet Hulme, 16.  With “animal ferocity” they hit her over and over again with a brick inside a stocking. Police would later say the 46-year-old had...

In 2011 Dean Richard Mulligan was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Marice McGregor.  Marice was reported missing by her family in April 2010 and it emerged she had not been seen or heard from in the 10 days before they approached police.  For weeks police searched...

George Gwaze was tried and acquitted in 2008 and 2012 after the death of his adopted daughter 10-year-old Charlene Makaza. Charlene was rushed to hospital in a terrible state in January 2007 and died after her little body effectively shut down due to massive infection - doctors and experts...