{"id":108254,"date":"2025-10-30T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108254\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:00:10","slug":"two-te-puke-men-charged-with-murdering-tristan-oakes-appear-in-tauranga-district-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108254\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Te Puke men charged with murdering Tristan Oakes appear in Tauranga District Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>30 Oct, 2025 01:45 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Tristan Oakes was fatally shot at the weekend in the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two men from Te Puke have appeared in court charged with murdering Tristan Eruera Oakes in the Bay of Plenty town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oakes, 29, was found critically injured from a gunshot wound at his home on Saturday, and died the next day in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Kanan Clarke, a 39-year-old rigger, and Joseph<br \/>\n         Ernest Yorke, aged 40 and with no occupation given on a court document, appeared in the Tauranga District Court this morning.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Kanan Clarke, 39, (left) and Joseph Yorke, 40, are charged with murdering Tristan Oakes.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Kanan Clarke, 39, (left) and Joseph Yorke, 40, are charged with murdering Tristan Oakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">They are jointly charged with murdering Oakes between Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 30 Oct, 2025 01:45 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12642,3378,13239,1349,7557,77975,71,305,42,78,3605,15360,43,76862,1562,46601,1227,8690,40,38,41,39,2951,76861,1237,102],"class_list":["post-108254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-appear","tag-appeared","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-district","tag-eruera","tag-from","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-men","tag-murdering","tag-news","tag-oakes","tag-plenty","tag-puke","tag-tauranga","tag-te","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-town","tag-tristan","tag-two","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}