{"id":110111,"date":"2025-10-31T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:24:22","slug":"sunlive-te-puke-men-in-court-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110111\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Te Puke men in court charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men from Te Puke have appeared in court charged with murdering Tristan Eruera Oakes in the Bay of Plenty town.<\/p>\n<p>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>Kanan Clarke, a 39-year-old rigger, and Joseph Ernest Yorke, aged 40 and with no occupation given on a court document, appeared in the Tauranga District Court Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kanan Clarke, 39, (left) and Joseph Yorke, 40, are charged with murdering Tristan Oakes.\"  data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Kanan Clarke, 39, (left) and Joseph Yorke, 40, are charged with murdering Tristan Oakes.<\/p>\n<p>They are jointly charged with murdering Oakes between Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They were remanded in custody without entering pleas and are scheduled to appear in the High Court at Tauranga on November 19.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Bay of Plenty Times\u00a0understands a tangi for Oakes is being held in Te Puke yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men from Te Puke have appeared in court charged with murdering Tristan Eruera Oakes in the Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-110111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110111","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=110111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}