{"id":464224,"date":"2026-06-06T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:31:11","slug":"prisoner-on-the-run-after-being-let-out-on-compassionate-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464224\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner on the run after being let out on &#8216;compassionate grounds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police are seeking urgent sightings of a man who has failed to return to prison after he was temporarily released on compassionate grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Royal Hawea, 36, should not be approached, and people who spot him should call 111, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">People who know the movements or whereabouts of Hawea \u2013 or have any information which could help \u2013 are urged to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Information could also be provided through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking urgent sightings of a man who has failed to return to prison after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464224","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464224","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=464224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}