A man who served 15 years in an Australian prison for beating his pregnant girlfriend to death took just six months to reoffend after being deported to New Zealand.

Lucy Knight still sometimes gets tired in the evenings, but that may be a symptom of being a mother-of-six rather than continued impact of her head injury.

One person has died in Waipa after a truck and an SUV collided on State Highway 39 earlier this evening.