{"id":394992,"date":"2026-01-06T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:02:07","slug":"bail-hearing-for-man-charged-with-boxing-day-murder-set-for-jan-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394992\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail hearing for man charged with Boxing Day murder set for Jan 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>45-year-old Jonasa Matakibau who allegedly stabbed a farmer, resulting in his death on Boxing Day<\/p>\n<p>45-year-old Jonasa Matakibau who allegedly stabbed a farmer, resulting in his death on Boxing Day in Batinivuriwai Settlement in Wainunu, Bua will have his bail hearing heard on the 13th of January.<\/p>\n<p>Labasa High Court Judge Justice Lee James Burney has further remanded him in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Matakibau is charged with one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe that the incident escalated into a brawl, during which the victim sustained a fatal stab wound to the chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"45-year-old Jonasa Matakibau who allegedly stabbed a farmer, resulting in his death on Boxing Day 45-year-old Jonasa Matakibau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1108,85],"class_list":["post-394992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-court","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}