{"id":235846,"date":"2026-01-16T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:31:07","slug":"wellington-identity-graham-bloxham-arrested-again-charged-over-wellington-live-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235846\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington identity Graham Bloxham arrested again, charged over Wellington Live Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is understood he has been charged in relation to a series of posts on social media that made serious criminal allegations against a Wellington man, who the Herald is not naming for legal reasons.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s employer described the posts as \u201cdefamatory\u201d, \u201cextremely damaging\u201d, and \u201ccompletely false\u201d in correspondence to Bloxham seen by the Herald.<\/p>\n

\"GrahamGraham Bloxhom dressed as a banana on the City to Sea bridge, Wellington, during his short-lived mayoral campaign. Photo \/ Marty Melville<\/p>\n

In response to the man\u2019s employer, Bloxham said the comments were not made by him, but rather a team of writers in Karachi, Pakistan, who he said work for Wellington Live.<\/p>\n

Police today confirmed to the Herald a man aged in his 50s was arrested and charged under the Harmful Digital Communications Act yesterday.<\/p>\n

He has been released on bail and will appear in the Wellington District Court next week.<\/p>\n

In a press release, Bloxham said he would \u201cfight this extreme censorship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Herald today, Bloxham said he was at home in his \u201cman cave\u201d yesterday when he saw three police officers arrive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just came in and then arrested me immediately, and they were very kind gentlemen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old said he has \u201cnever been more downhearted\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bloxham says he no longer owns the controversial Facebook page and associated sites, which have previously courted criticism for spreading misinformation. Instead, Bloxham describes himself as a contractor of Wellington Live. He says he has sold the page, although it has never been disclosed to whom.<\/p>\n

Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is understood he has been charged in relation to a series of posts on social media that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6030,11924,1558,62510,13239,4636,18361,18558,4960,1073,111,43,139,69,1523,18935,6791,312,8466,1072,1961,2044,686,52],"class_list":["post-235846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-again","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-bloxham","tag-charged","tag-facebook","tag-graham","tag-identity","tag-live","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-posts","tag-prominent","tag-says","tag-second","tag-social","tag-this","tag-time","tag-week","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235846","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=235846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}