{"id":309644,"date":"2026-03-02T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:04:14","slug":"police-appeal-for-sightings-of-missing-whanganui-man-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309644\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for sightings of missing Whanganui man Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">She said Richard had fled from Whanganui Hospital on February 26 without being discharged and the family were concerned for his wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s on foot, with none of his possessions after a mental health break \u2013 we are all worried,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s got nothing with him, no phone, no money and no car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information on Richard\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact police online at 105.police.govt.nz or call 105, using the reference number 260228\/8656.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said Richard had fled from Whanganui Hospital on February 26 without being discharged and the family were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6375,682,15969,2082,2241,2845,5158,6501,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,675,15160,40249,28652,1883,1339],"class_list":["post-309644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-appeal","tag-being","tag-discharged","tag-for","tag-hospital","tag-leaving","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-police","tag-richard","tag-seeking","tag-sightings","tag-whanganui","tag-without"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309644","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=309644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}