{"id":360823,"date":"2026-04-02T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360823\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:56:09","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-two-found-dead-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360823\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after two found dead in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man has been charged with murder after two people were found dead at a property in Hamilton yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called at around 4pm after the discovery of two bodies at an address on York Street in the city&#8217;s east. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Later in the evening, an injured man presented himself at hospital, and officers connected the man to the deaths,&#8221; Detective Inspector Stephen Ambler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 34-year-old man would appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow on two charges of murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police would like to reassure the community that this was an isolated incident, and we are not looking for anyone else in relation to the matter,&#8221; Ambler said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Our thoughts and condolences are with the loved ones of the two people that died.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after two people were found dead at a property in Hamilton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-360823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-hamilton-waikato","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360823","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=360823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}