{"id":464980,"date":"2026-06-07T05:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:47:11","slug":"police-seek-young-women-in-relation-to-serious-halloween-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464980\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek young women in relation to ‘serious’ Halloween assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police investigating the Halloween assault of four people at Auckland’s Morningside Train Station have released images of several young women they believe could help them.<\/p>\n

The victims were assaulted on the platform as a well as a train carriage on the evening of October 31 last year, police said.<\/p>\n

The three women and a man in, all in their early 20s, told the NZ Herald in January they were left “deeply fearful of public transport” after the attack.<\/p>\n

One victim estimated around 35 teenagers took part surrounded them and “took turns”.<\/p>\n

They suffered head injuries, deep cuts and significant bruising.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Sunday, police released the photos of the young women, dressed up in costume and appearing to be drinking alcohol, saying an extensive investigation had been carried out.<\/p>\n

“Two young people have been arrested, however police are still working to identify some of the people present at the time.”<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police believe the young women pictured may have information that could assist their investigation. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

It was believed the young women pictured may have information that could assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n

“If you recognise anyone pictured, or have information that could help identify them, please get in touch with police.”<\/p>\n

This could be done via 105, quoting file number 251101\/2119.<\/p>\n

Police advised against approaching them or attempting to identify them directly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating the Halloween assault of four people at Auckland’s Morningside Train Station have released images of several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","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\/464980","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=464980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}