{"id":189559,"date":"2025-12-18T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:23:11","slug":"police-seek-public-help-after-disturbing-instance-of-extreme-violence-critically-injures-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189559\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek public help after &#8216;disturbing instance of extreme violence&#8217; critically injures person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LDWYGN_MicrosoftTeams_image_55_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police in Wellington. Generic image\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver\n<\/p>\n<p>Hutt Valley Police are investigating what they are calling a disturbing instance of extreme violence, which has left someone with critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police received reports of an assault at an address on Trinity Avenue in Epuni, about 5am on Wednesday, 10 December.<\/p>\n<p>Acting detective senior sergeant Kylee Cusin said police continue to explore multiple avenues of enquiry and are asking the public for their help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What has occurred is a disturbing instance of extreme violence, and we&#8217;re asking anyone who was in the Trinity Avenue and Oxford Terrace area at that time to reach out to police, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know there will be people in the community who have information which could help us find the people responsible for this crime.&#8221;<\/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":"Photo: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver Hutt Valley Police are investigating what they are calling a disturbing instance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"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-189559","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\/189559","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=189559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}