{"id":168433,"date":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","slug":"kaitaia-homicide-woman-accused-of-killing-monty-knight-appears-in-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168433\/","title":{"rendered":"Kait\u0101ia homicide: Woman accused of killing Monty Knight appears in High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Her name suppression was extended because of the risk of extreme hardship from naming her, which means she cannot be named or identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Reports were ordered to assess the woman\u2019s mental fitness to enter a plea and the impact of naming her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A three-week trial date was tentatively set for July 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The woman is due to reappear in the High Court at Whang\u0101rei in April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/denise-piper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her name suppression was extended because of the risk of extreme hardship from naming her, which means she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,3378,16425,6255,87228,1349,2959,8916,78,18839,11156,13635,94400,15360,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,6100,1869,1354],"class_list":["post-168433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-appeared","tag-appears","tag-businessman","tag-cannot","tag-court","tag-high","tag-homicide","tag-in","tag-kaitia","tag-killing","tag-knight","tag-monty","tag-murdering","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-still","tag-whangrei","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433","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=168433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}