{"id":131896,"date":"2025-11-12T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131896\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:06","slug":"tristan-oakes-death-third-man-charged-with-te-puke-murder-appears-in-tauranga-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131896\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Oakes death: Third man charged with Te Puke murder appears in Tauranga court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police initially jointly charged 39-year-old rigger Kanan Clarke and 40-year-old Joseph Ernest Yorke with murdering Oakes.<\/p>\n

The pair appeared via video link from prison before Judge Paul Geoghegan in court yesterday.<\/p>\n

They faced three fresh joint charges, including burglary, kidnapping, and disfiguring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n

The latter two charges related to allegations that the pair unlawfully detained and disfigured another man in Te Puke between January 1 and March 17.<\/p>\n

Watson appeared in court in person and is jointly accused of murder and burglary.<\/p>\n

Billyboy William Whare, 30, also appeared jointly charged with burglary.<\/p>\n

The charge relates to an allegation that he and others unlawfully entered an enclosed yard on Manoeka Rd in Te Puke on October 25.<\/p>\n

His co-accused are Yorke, Clarke, Watson, a man who failed to appear in court, and another due to appear today.<\/p>\n

Judge Geoghegan signed an arrest warrant for the man who failed to appear in court.<\/p>\n

All accused who appeared were remanded in custody to reappear in the Tauranga High Court on November 19.<\/p>\n

Some may appear sooner to apply for bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police initially jointly charged 39-year-old rigger Kanan Clarke and 40-year-old Joseph Ernest Yorke with murdering Oakes. The pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90705,3378,16425,13239,1349,634,2209,42,78,5158,4275,43,76862,46601,1227,8690,3755,40,38,41,39,76861,102],"class_list":["post-131896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-29yearold","tag-appeared","tag-appears","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-death","tag-father","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-oakes","tag-puke","tag-tauranga","tag-te","tag-third","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tristan","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131896","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=131896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}