{"id":300970,"date":"2026-02-25T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:38:09","slug":"investigation-underway-after-body-found-near-vehicle-in-westland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300970\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after body found near vehicle in Westland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSNFEY_parkers_creek_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"640\" alt=\"police officer found the body near Parkers Creek.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA police officer found the body near Parkers Creek.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating after a person was found dead near a vehicle in Whataroa, north of Franz Josef.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Brent Lyford said a police officer found the body near Parkers Creek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, the death is being treated as unexplained,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lyford said members of the Whataroa community can expect to see an increased police presence as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>A postmortem examination is due to be carried out later in the week.<\/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":"A police officer found the body near Parkers Creek. Photo: Google Maps Police are investigating after a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300971,"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-300970","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\/300970","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=300970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}