{"id":202053,"date":"2025-12-26T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202053\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:46:10","slug":"man-appears-in-court-on-charges-after-handing-himself-in-for-questioning-over-suspected-double-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202053\/","title":{"rendered":"Man appears in court on charges after handing himself in for questioning over suspected double homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man appeared in court on December 26. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

A man who handed himself in to police for questioning over the suspected double homicide of a farming couple has appeared in court.<\/p>\n

The bodies of Brendon and Trina Cole were discovered on the driveway of their Ruatiti home along Murumuru Rd near Whanganui National Park, on December 13.<\/p>\n

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\n man was named a person of interest over the suspected double homicide, which was followed by a nearly two-week search for him.\n <\/p>\n

Central District Commander Superintendent Dion Bennett said the man had presented himself to the Whanganui Police Station about 1.30pm on Christmas Day, and was arrested on an active warrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice on ground in the area will now be making further inquiries in the investigation,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whanganui Chronicle 25 Dec, 2025 10:58 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,3378,16425,1873,8414,1349,8609,14934,2082,29888,83800,42,8241,8916,78,5158,43,90,1523,675,53190,8841,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-202053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appeared","tag-appears","tag-charges","tag-couple","tag-court","tag-double","tag-farming","tag-for","tag-handed","tag-handing","tag-headlines","tag-himself","tag-homicide","tag-in","tag-man","tag-news","tag-on","tag-over","tag-police","tag-questioning","tag-suspected","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053","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=202053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}