{"id":372586,"date":"2026-04-10T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:25:10","slug":"katikati-fatal-dog-attack-accused-owners-reappear-in-court-no-pleas-entered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372586\/","title":{"rendered":"Katikati fatal dog attack: Accused owners reappear in court, no pleas entered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the attack, three dogs were seized and euthanised by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Nicholas Dutch told Community Magistrate Lesley Jensen that he only received the substantive disclosure materials from the police on April 8.<\/p>\n

Dutch said he needed about three or four weeks to go through the disclosure materials with the defendants and obtain instructions for how they wanted to plead. <\/p>\n

He also successfully sought continuation of the interim name suppression<\/a> order for his clients. This was not opposed by police prosecutor Kerry Sykes.<\/p>\n

Community Magistrate Jensen remanded the defendants on bail to reappear in the Tauranga Registrar\u2019s Court on May 18.<\/p>\n

Sandra Conchie<\/a> is a senior journalist at the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post who has been a journalist for 25 years. She mainly covers police, court and other justice stories, as well as general news. She has been a Canon Media Awards regional\/community reporter of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the attack, three dogs were seized and euthanised by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council. Defence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,89,1349,9219,34464,11784,78,87327,111,43,139,7805,69,9769,83612,194614],"class_list":{"0":"post-372586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-dog","12":"tag-entered","13":"tag-fatal","14":"tag-in","15":"tag-katikati","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-no","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-owners","22":"tag-pleas","23":"tag-reappear"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372586","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=372586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}