{"id":383897,"date":"2026-04-17T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:08:09","slug":"rotorua-homicide-two-more-face-accessory-charges-over-death-of-nicholas-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383897\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua homicide: Two more face accessory charges over death of Nicholas Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Police said his injuries were not consistent with a crash, and they began a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Te Kani previously pleaded not guilty to murder, and a reserve trial date has been set for October 11, 2027, with a firm trial date set for February 14, 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Holly Tekani is charged with assisting him by hiding him from police to enable him to avoid arrest on December 14. She is further charged with assaulting a police officer on March 20.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Rawiri Te Kani pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder when he appeared in the High Court at Rotorua on February 5. Photo \/ Megan Wilson  \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Rawiri Te Kani pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder when he appeared in the High Court at Rotorua on February 5. Photo \/ Megan Wilson  <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Frost is charged with receiving Te Kani to enable him to avoid arrest on December 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Brydon is charged with transporting Te Kani and hiding him to enable him to avoid arrest between December 12 and December 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Te Kani, Brydon, Tekani and Frost will reappear on June 19 for a case review hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Brydon, Tekani and Frost are on bail with a trial date set for November 1 next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/kelly-makiha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said his injuries were not consistent with a crash, and they began a homicide investigation. Te Kani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52194,1873,634,1872,8916,5430,130,111,43,139,24743,69,1118,1523,1327,1237],"class_list":{"0":"post-383897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accessory","9":"tag-charges","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-face","12":"tag-homicide","13":"tag-mitchell","14":"tag-more","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nicholas","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-over","22":"tag-rotorua","23":"tag-two"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383897","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=383897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}