{"id":235417,"date":"2026-01-15T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:28:09","slug":"sunlive-tauranga-woman-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235417\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Tauranga woman charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A murder charge has now been laid after the death of a man in Tauranga last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The man was found dead at a Fraser St address on Sunday, December 14, after emergency services were called to the property at 11.40am.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old woman, initially charged with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/third-homicide-in-three-days-police-probe-tauranga-death-and-seek-information\/SNIOM2SXFVBSLJ5YLSXVJWHR54\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/third-homicide-in-three-days-police-probe-tauranga-death-and-seek-information\/SNIOM2SXFVBSLJ5YLSXVJWHR54\/\">assault on a person in a relationship<\/a>, had been charged with murder today after further inquiries, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Varnam said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police say their inquiries into the man's death are continuing after a murder charge was laid today. Photo \/ Samantha Motion\"  data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Police say their inquiries into the man&#8217;s death are continuing after a murder charge was laid today. Photo \/ Samantha Motion<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice\u2019s investigation into the death of the man is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; A murder charge has now been laid after the death of a man in Tauranga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-235417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235417","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=235417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}