{"id":360967,"date":"2026-04-02T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:44:15","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-two-bodies-found-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360967\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after two bodies found in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4MYWOCU_copyright_image_220966.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Unexplained death in Taita, Lower Hutt early on Sunday 26th January 2020.  A Police cordon and crime scene invetsigation tent were in place Monday 27th January 2020.  Police Emergency tape.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTwo people were found dead at a property on York Street on Thursday afternoon.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Patrice Allen\n<\/p>\n<p>Police investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/591395\/two-found-dead-at-hamilton-property-police-investigation-underway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two deaths in Hamilton<\/a> have arrested a 34-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were found dead at a property on York Street on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Stephen Ambler, Field Crime Manager, said later that evening, an injured man arrived at a hospital and &#8220;officers connected the man to the deaths&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The man is due to appear in Hamilton District Court on Saturday faces two charges of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons remained in place on the street, Ambler said, and police were undertaking a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>&#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><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":"Two people were found dead at a property on York Street on Thursday afternoon. Photo: RNZ \/ Patrice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-360967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360967","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=360967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}