{"id":265394,"date":"2026-02-03T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:58:10","slug":"police-launch-homicide-investigation-after-man-injured-outside-napier-nightclub-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265394\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch homicide investigation after man injured outside Napier nightclub dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">He is next due to appear in the Napier District Court on February 25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice would like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the incident on the wharf area on West Quay between 12.30 and 1.30am Sunday,\u201d Kemsley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe would also like to hear from anyone who might have footage available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPlease contact us online at <a href=\"https:\/\/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/wfENCANZjqF5Q8D0UGfRIGDstR?domain=105.police.govt.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">105.police.govt.nz<\/a>, or call 105, and use the reference number 260201\/1791.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is next due to appear in the Napier District Court on February 25. \u201cPolice would like to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11425,1558,6179,7126,8916,10933,12898,3331,1743,5158,3607,111,43,139,99386,69,14727,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-265394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-badly","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-died","12":"tag-dies","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-injured","15":"tag-investigation","16":"tag-launch","17":"tag-launched","18":"tag-man","19":"tag-napier","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nightclub","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-outside","26":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265394","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=265394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}