{"id":261885,"date":"2026-02-01T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261885\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:55:07","slug":"police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-man-assaulted-outside-napier-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261885\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for witnesses after man assaulted outside Napier nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4MGCC7Y_copyright_image_253612.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"655\" alt=\"Police car on the street at night\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice were called around 1am to West Quay in Ahuriri where the man was located.<br \/>\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>A 46-year-old man is in a critical condition in Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hospital after being assaulted outside a night club in Napier early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Ryan Kemsley said police were called at around 1am to West Quay in Ahuriri, where the man was located unresponsive on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have arrested a 21-year-old man and he is assisting with our investigation. No charges have been laid at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for assistance from the public should they have witnessed or have knowledge of the incident including any CCTV or video footage that may be available.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was encouraged to contact police on 105 either online or over the phone using file reference number 260201\/1791.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called around 1am to West Quay in Ahuriri where the man was located. Photo: 123RF A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205664,"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-261885","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\/261885","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=261885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}