Police are continuing to investigate a serious, unprovoked assault on a man who was lured from his home in Edendale last week.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Brian McKinney, of Gore CIB, said the assault happened at about 10.55pm on Saturday November 15, near the corner of Melvin St and Turner St.<\/p>\n
The assault began after a woman went to the victim\u2019s house asking for assistance with a flat tyre.<\/p>\n
The victim was then accosted and assaulted by a man, suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank those people who have contacted us following our earlier appeal for information and CCTV footage,” Det Sgt McKinney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Police have reviewed a range of CCTV footage as a result, which has enabled us to obtain descriptions of the woman and man involved in the incident.”<\/p>\n
The woman is described as being in her late teens or early twenties, of slim build, and about 175cm tall.<\/p>\n
She was wearing knee high black boots, shorts, and a light-coloured hooded top.\u00a0 She is also described as wearing a long black wig.<\/p>\n
The man is described as having a slim build and is approximately 175 \u2013 185cm tall.<\/p>\n
He was wearing light coloured (possibly grey) track pants with zip up pockets, ankle-high boots with a dark coloured sole, a light-coloured hooded top, and black gloves.<\/p>\n
“This was a particularly vicious and unprovoked assault, where the victim was beaten unconscious and suffered serious injuries, including a fractured eye socket and a broken nose,” Det Sgt McKinney said.<\/p>\n
“Concerningly, after the victim lost consciousness, the offenders attempted to restrain him by taping his hands together behind his back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We believe the outcome for the victim could have been much worse given the severity of this attack.”<\/p>\n
Police have asked anyone able to identify the man and woman or who has any information on the incident to call 105 and quote file number 251116\/4977.<\/p>\n
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are continuing to investigate a serious, unprovoked assault on a man who was lured from his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-150698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150698","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=150698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}