{"id":394708,"date":"2026-04-24T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:13:09","slug":"teen-charged-with-murder-over-wainuiomata-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394708\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged with murder over Wainuiomata stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old has been charged with murder over the stabbing of a man in Wainuiomata earlier this month.  <\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Wainuiomata Rd on the morning of April 2 when Daniel Te Mataku was found unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards. <\/p>\n<p>Originally, a &#8220;young person&#8221; was charged with assault with a weapon.  <\/p>\n<p>In an update this morning, Detective Inspector Nick Pritchard said police had filed a murder charge against a 17-year-old.  <\/p>\n<p>They would appear in the Hutt Valley Youth Court today<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including US forces seize another vessel, and what\u2019s unusual about this Anzac Day. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old has been charged with murder over the stabbing of a man in Wainuiomata earlier this month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-394708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394708","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=394708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}