{"id":259385,"date":"2026-01-30T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259385\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:40:12","slug":"ni-vanuatu-rse-worker-pleads-not-guilty-to-pukehina-orchard-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259385\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni-Vanuatu RSE worker pleads not guilty to Pukehina orchard murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Less than 12 hours later, Adam Nauka, a migrant worker, was found dead on the same property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Both workers were employed in New Zealand under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/government-introduces-seasonal-work-visa-sub-category\/BVMZB7E5LNHIHHCLLHS3N4FLKU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/government-introduces-seasonal-work-visa-sub-category\/BVMZB7E5LNHIHHCLLHS3N4FLKU\/\">Recognised Seasonal Employee (RSE) visa<\/a>, and were visiting on a tourist visa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Wilson announced last night that police had filed a murder charge in place of a simple assault charge relating to the death of the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">A Vanuatu country liaison told RNZ Pacific that Nauka passed away as the result of a medical issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">In court this morning, defence lawyer John Wayne applied for interim name suppression for his client to continue until his scheduled High Court appearance on February 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than 12 hours later, Adam Nauka, a migrant worker, was found dead on the same property. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3368,149194,4275,111,43,139,149193,5006,69,67208,3367,88235,119383,149195,61,12767],"class_list":["post-259385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-guilty","tag-kaya","tag-murder","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nivanuatu","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-orchard","tag-pleads","tag-pukehina","tag-rse","tag-selby","tag-to","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259385","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=259385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}