Leitch said he suffered the fatal injuries during an assault and robbery around 12.30am on March 17 last year in what was part of a premeditated attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe offenders, who stole nothing more than his car keys, then callously left him bleeding and unconscious on the footpath.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one has yet been held responsible for his killing, and police are committed to continuing their pursuit of justice for the Nabizadah family.\u201d <\/p>\n
Around 2am, police were on their way to a home invasion on nearby Darlington Rd when they found Nabizadah.<\/p>\n
Police then arrived at the Darlington Rd property and arrested a 28-year-old man for aggravated burglary. <\/p>\n
The investigation team previously identified a connection between Nabizadah\u2019s death and the Darlington Rd burglary.<\/p>\n
A cell phone left behind at the Darlington Rd property by the offender was allegedly used to lure Nabizadah to Camperdown Rd, where the assault took place.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter an extensive investigation, we now believe there was more than one person involved in the plan to rob Mr Nabizadah, and that this may have included the use of a weapon,\u201d Leitch said last October.<\/p>\n
John Nabizadah was the first person to see his father in the intensive care unit at Wellington Hospital. He assumed his dad had been in a car crash with his injuries, he told RNZ.<\/p>\n
John Nabizadah said his father was harmless, hard-working and kind. <\/p>\n
He asked anyone who had any information to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want that person to be walking around the street freely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police say any information could help provide Nabizadah\u2019s family with answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny information, no matter how small, may make the difference for investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are appealing for anyone with information that could assist the Operation Celtic investigation team to get in touch online through 105.police.govt.nz and clicking \u201cUpdate Report\u201d or by calling 105.<\/p>\n
People with information are asked to use the reference number 250317\/6324, or reference Operation Celtic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leitch said he suffered the fatal injuries during an assault and robbery around 12.30am on March 17 last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[178595,104438,74,95,38864,67650,1970,8615,690,2109,43972,19134,1445,42,8916,2205,95690,6036,101,16122,51127,178596,43,1118,675,16654,90263,35993,165,8229,61,40,38,41,39,25396,4524,52,102,379],"class_list":["post-333019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abdulhassan","tag-afghan","tag-after","tag-and","tag-answers","tag-beaten","tag-believe","tag-come","tag-dead","tag-family","tag-footpath","tag-forward","tag-friends","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-involved","tag-killers","tag-know","tag-left","tag-mans","tag-miramar","tag-nabizadah","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-provide","tag-refugee","tag-relatives","tag-their","tag-they","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-urge","tag-want","tag-wellington","tag-with","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333019","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=333019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}