{"id":151431,"date":"2025-11-24T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:26:12","slug":"police-still-looking-for-two-people-involved-in-unprovoked-southland-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151431\/","title":{"rendered":"Police still looking for two people involved in unprovoked Southland assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAL_RNZD0270_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice are looking for a man and woman.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Southland police are still looking for two people involved in what they describe as a particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/579104\/man-suffers-fractured-eye-socket-broken-nose-after-offering-help-to-woman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vicious and unprovoked assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On November 15th a man was lured from his Edendale home by a woman seeking help with a flat tyre.<\/p>\n<p>He followed her to the corner of Melvin Street and Turner Street, where a man attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered a fractured eye socket and broken nose, and lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was slim, in her late teens or early twenties, and wearing a long black wig, shorts and knee-high boots.<\/p>\n<p>The man was slim and was wearing light track pants, boots, a light top and gloves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a man and woman. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Southland police are still looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-151431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151431","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=151431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}