{"id":45135,"date":"2025-09-26T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:32:09","slug":"grievous-assault-leaves-blood-belongings-scattered-on-george-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45135\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grievous&#8217; assault leaves blood, belongings scattered on George St"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gerorge_assault_270925.jpg\" width=\"2627\" height=\"1687\" alt=\"Police and St John at the scene of this morning's serious assault in George St. Photo: Stephen...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police and St John at the scene of this morning&#8217;s serious assault in George St. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery <\/p>\n<p>A person was taken to hospital in a serious condition following an assault on George St shortly after midnight this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said they were first called to the &#8220;grievous assault&#8221; on George St at about 12.30am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person suffered serious injuries and was taken to Dunedin Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested a 24-year-old man who is due to appear in Dunedin District Court today, charged with wounding to intent to injure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scene remained cordoned off this morning with personal items and pools of blood lying in the street.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen shops were behind the police tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and St John at the scene of this morning&#8217;s serious assault in George St. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-45135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135","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=45135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}