{"id":453229,"date":"2026-05-30T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:02:09","slug":"flaxmere-murder-kereama-rewita-admits-killing-keith-pati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453229\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaxmere murder: Kereama Rewita admits killing Keith Pati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>30 May, 2026 09:06 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A man charged with the murder of Flaxmere resident Keith Pati has pleaded guilty in the High Court at Napier. PHOTO\/FILE\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man charged with the murder of Flaxmere resident Keith Pati has pleaded guilty in the High Court at Napier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kereama Rewita, 30, entered the guilty plea on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pati, 33, died after being taken to hospital following an assault in Camberley, Hastings on February 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Rewita is due<br \/>\n         to be sentenced in the High Court at Napier on July 8.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice would like to thank all those who have assisted our investigation into Mr Pati\u2019s death,\u201d said Senior Sergeant Dan Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 30 May, 2026 09:06 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16489,13239,1349,9850,3368,2959,44180,230555,11156,4275,3607,111,43,139,69,162601,3373,10710,230556,102],"class_list":["post-453229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-admits","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-flaxmere","tag-guilty","tag-high","tag-keith","tag-kereama","tag-killing","tag-murder","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pati","tag-pleaded","tag-resident","tag-rewita","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453229","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=453229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}