{"id":152288,"date":"2025-11-25T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:59:09","slug":"post%e2%80%91mortem-completed-after-body-found-in-search-for-te-anihana-pomana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152288\/","title":{"rendered":"Post\u2011mortem completed after body found in search for Te Anihana Pomana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are carrying out enquiries into the circumstances of Te Anihana\u2019s death on behalf of the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with the Te Anihana\u2019s mother and her wider wh\u0101nau during this incredibly difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">Te Anihana\u2019s family have criticised police for the way they announced a body had been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe media releases were done without official confirmation with formal identification,\u201d said a Facebook post linked to the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWh\u0101nau hadn\u2019t got the chance to inform many close to Te Anihana. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police confirmed they were notified a body was located in dense bush in the Pukekohe area at 7.43pm on Saturday. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police confirmed they were notified a body was located in dense bush in the Pukekohe area at 7.43pm on Saturday. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cApologies to anyone that has had to read and find this information out in this manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/whanau-need-you-bring-te-anihana-pomana-home?fbclid=IwY2xjawOR1HlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEejgC9yq1h6OPFaXOKy1ajSvuWp4ZXaJ-Jxt2DeojVdq16GSNxjDhnL_XDlqw_aem_O6BK66q7t5m6giFBlyRFJw\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/whanau-need-you-bring-te-anihana-pomana-home?fbclid=IwY2xjawOR1HlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEejgC9yq1h6OPFaXOKy1ajSvuWp4ZXaJ-Jxt2DeojVdq16GSNxjDhnL_XDlqw_aem_O6BK66q7t5m6giFBlyRFJw\">A Give a Little page<\/a> set up to assist with the search for Te Anihana said her body will be brought to Dunedin once it is confirmed it was her body found in Pukekohe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur new focus for this page Donations will be used to cover these transportation and funeral costs,\u201d the page said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHuge thank you to everyone who has contributed, your thoughts and prayers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">Te Anihana\u2019s sister, Ebony, described the 25-year-old as a beautiful person who was a \u201cwell-educated and driven\u201d individual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI love you and I\u2019m only here to find you,\u201d she told the Herald last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are carrying out enquiries into the circumstances of Te Anihana\u2019s death on behalf of the Coroner. \u201cOur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,38266,7800,8530,5907,2082,1874,305,78,111,43,139,69,675,38267,101444,36262,1870,8690],"class_list":{"0":"post-152288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-anihana","10":"tag-body","11":"tag-carried","12":"tag-completed","13":"tag-for","14":"tag-found","15":"tag-have","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-pomana","23":"tag-postmortem","24":"tag-pukekohe","25":"tag-search","26":"tag-te"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152288","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=152288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}