{"id":380393,"date":"2026-04-15T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:05:09","slug":"names-of-those-charged-over-death-of-shulai-wang-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380393\/","title":{"rendered":"Names of those charged over death of Shulai Wang revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people charged with the kidnapping and manslaughter of a Chinese woman, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2024\/10\/25\/police-confirm-identity-of-woman-found-in-bag-in-aucklands-gulf-harbour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">body was found wrapped in plastic bags<\/a> in the water at Auckland&#8217;s Gulf Harbour, can now be named.<\/p>\n<p>By Lucy Xia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/592441\/body-in-bag-case-identities-of-people-charged-over-death-of-shulai-wang-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaixiao Liu, Lanyue Xiao, Xiuyun Li and Jingui Liu are facing a five-week trial starting late next month, over the death of 70-year-old Shulai Wang \u2013 whose body was first discovered by a fisherman in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Wang was identified and named seven months after her body was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants&#8217; bid for interim name suppression was declined in the High Court in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>They appealed that decision and their arguments were heard at a Court of Appeal hearing last month.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants represented themselves in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal has released its decision to dismiss the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Susan Thomas, Cameron Mander and Andrew Becroft have suppressed the reasons for their decision.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants&#8217; application to have their charges indefinitely put on hold was also dismissed in a High Court decision issued last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people charged with the kidnapping and manslaughter of a Chinese woman, whose body was found wrapped in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-380393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380393","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=380393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}