{"id":300749,"date":"2026-02-25T02:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300749\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:41:12","slug":"grave-concerns-for-man-as-mental-health-services-overwhelmed-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300749\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grave concerns&#8217; for man as mental health services overwhelmed &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man appeared in court last week in relation to an alleged incident where he made threats to kill whilst in a store in Waterford in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He allegedly made threats to kill at Sara Technology on Broad Street, contrary to Section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man, of no fixed abode, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Waterford District Court via video link in relation to the matter last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The court expressed \u201cgrave concerns\u201d over his mental health and his solicitor requested that a psychiatric team assist the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His solicitor further added that a member of the man\u2019s family instructed him that the mental health supports, which are available, are currently overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Paula Murphy directed that the Government carry out an assessment and evaluation of the situation, given the concerns raised by the man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man was remanded in custody until March 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man appeared in court last week in relation to an alleged incident where he made threats to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-300749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300749","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=300749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}