{"id":150785,"date":"2025-11-24T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150785\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:50:07","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-missing-woman-te-anihana-pomana-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150785\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for missing woman Te Anihana Pomana"},"content":{"rendered":"

A body has been found in dense bush near Auckland’s Pukekohe in the search for missing woman Te Anihana Pomana.<\/p>\n

Pomana, also known as Ani Anderson, went missing on August 21 after leaving SkyCity Hotel in the early hours of the morning, having left all her belongings at the hotel.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was last seen on CCTV heading towards Victoria St West in the central city before she vanished.<\/p>\n

On Monday afternoon, police said they were notified of a body being located in the Pukekohe area around 7.43pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Detective Sergeant Martin Friend said formal identification was yet to take place but it was believed to be the body of Te Anihana.<\/p>\n

“Her family have been notified of this development and are being provided support.”<\/p>\n

Friend said an investigation into the death was underway and that a post-mortem examination would be carried out in due course.<\/p>\n

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Te Anihana Pomana, 25. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

‘Her heart pure gold’<\/p>\n

In a social media post last month, her family described Pomana as “literally one of the most beautiful human beings ever”.<\/p>\n

“She’s of light, her heart pure gold, would do absolutely anything for anyone. A keen go getter. A genuine beautiful old soul.”<\/p>\n

The family had been fundraising through raffles and quiz nights to hire private investigators and offer a cash reward for any information about Te Anihana.<\/p>\n

Pomana’s mother Catherine Anderson spoke at a media conference<\/a> in September, pleading to the public and saying \u201csomeone must have seen her\u201d.<\/p>\n

“As a mother, I\u2019m appealing to anyone who has any information about Te Anihana to contact the police.”<\/p>\n

She said Te Anihana was a much-loved daughter, sister, auntie, niece, friend and mokopuna.<\/p>\n

“We want to find her and take her home and keep her safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been found in dense bush near Auckland’s Pukekohe in the search for missing woman Te…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-150785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150785","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=150785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}