{"id":236375,"date":"2026-01-16T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:20:11","slug":"man-charged-after-family-harm-incident-in-masterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236375\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after family harm incident in Masterton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4NOEUVD_copyright_image_164891.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police generic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Richard Tindiller\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested a 25-year-old man following a family harm incident in Masterton.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to a River Road address late Thursday afternoon and found a woman unconscious and bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Wellington Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>The man was due to appear in Masterton District Court on Friday, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A scene examination is underway at the River Road address and residents can expect to see a continued police presence in the area while further enquiries are made,&#8221; Detective Inspector Jamie Woods said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to reassure the members of our community that there is no risk to public safety following this isolated incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could help police was urged to contact them via 105, quoting file number 260115\/7089, or provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>Family Violence<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Photo: RNZ \/ Richard Tindiller Police have arrested a 25-year-old man following a family harm incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-236375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236375","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=236375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}