Stories by Anneke Smith

The serial rapist dubbed the Beast of Blenheim has failed in his latest challenge to his convictions and sentence.

It took a jury five hours to decide the man accused of murdering Grace Millane was guilty.

The man on trial over the death of British backpacker Grace Millane has been found guilty of murder. Video

The jury has indicated it is not far from a verdict in the trial of the man accused of murdering Grace Millane.

The defence has closed its case for the man accused of murdering Grace Millane, asking the jury to deliver a not guilty verdict.

The Crown has closed its case against the man accused of murdering Grace Millane, telling the jury the defendant "eroticised" the death of the British backpacker.

The defence team representing the man accused of murdering Grace Millane hired a private investigator to track down potential witnesses for its case.

The defence team representing the man accused of murdering Grace Millane has called an academic to speak about sexual culture.

A forensic pathologist based in Florida has disputed a Crown expert's opinion on bruising to Grace Millane's body.

Friends of Grace Millane told police the British backpacker had an interest in being choked during rough sex, a court has heard.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane will not take the witness stand in his own defence but has elected to call evidence.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering Grace Millane is to find out if he will give evidence in his own defence next week, after the Crown's case retired yesterday.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane told police he confessed about burying the British backpacker so her family could have closure.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane admitted to police in his second interview the British backpacker was dead and that he had taken her body to the Waitākere Ranges.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane told a Tinder date he knew of someone who'd been done for manslaughter after rough sex went wrong, a court has heard.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane bought cleaning products, hired a rental car and met a woman for a drink at a bar as the British backpacker lay dead in his apartment.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane told police he was at a bar getting black-out drunk at a time CCTV cameras showed him entering CityLife with the British backpacker.

A court has heard the man accused of murdering Grace Millane initially lied to the police about the last time he saw her.

A forensic pathologist has told the jury in the Grace Millane murder trial the British backpacker died of pressure to the neck.

A name suppression breach meant a key Crown witness in the Grace Millane trial knew the man accused was the subject of a murder inquiry before she spoke with police, a court has been told.

A woman who says she was suffocated by the man charged with murdering Grace Millane has been accused of lying.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane suffocated a woman he met on Tinder during sex, a court has heard.

There is "extremely strong scientific evidence" the DNA identified from blood flecks on a fridge belonged to Grace Millane, a court has been told.

A detective who investigated the death of British backpacker Grace Millane has described to the court the search history on the phone of the man accused of murdering her.

Grace Millane told a friend she "clicked" with the man accused of murdering her after a Tinder date, a court has heard.