{"id":269656,"date":"2026-02-05T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:07","slug":"body-found-at-napier-beach-after-late-night-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269656\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found at Napier beach after late-night search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>5 Feb, 2026 07:48 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A body was found at Westshore Beach in Napier early this morning. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A body has been found at a beach in Napier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were notified that a body was seen off the water off The Esplanade, Westshore, around 8.25pm yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police and Coastguard conducted a search, and the body was found just before 1.30am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A formal identification process is<br \/>\n         underway, and the death will be referred to the coroner, a police spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 5 Feb, 2026 07:48 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,7972,1558,7800,1874,8526,3607,111,43,139,69,1870],"class_list":{"0":"post-269656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-at","10":"tag-beach","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-body","13":"tag-found","14":"tag-latenight","15":"tag-napier","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-search"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269656","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=269656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}