{"id":469240,"date":"2026-06-09T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:54:12","slug":"waikato-teen-faces-manslaughter-charge-after-crash-that-killed-mother-of-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469240\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato teen faces manslaughter charge after crash that killed mother of two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Stuff previously reported the mother of two gave up her job as a senior firefighter in the Philippines, to move to New Zealand to give her family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/district-court\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/district-court\/\">a better life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">She had been working on a dairy farm when she died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">At the teen\u2019s brief court appearance, he was granted name suppression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The Crown did not oppose his bail, and he was remanded to reappear in the High Court at Hamilton later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">NZME understands it is alleged the accused, who was supported in court by wh\u0101nau, was speeding at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police previously said that a BMW was allegedly speeding on Arapuni Rd about 8.40pm, and officers turned to stop the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Moments later, the crash occurred. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Four occupants in the defendant\u2019s vehicle were also injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The Independent Police Conduct Authority was notified at the time of the crash, as was standard procedure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuff previously reported the mother of two gave up her job as a senior firefighter in the Philippines,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,32294,3549,6119,3375,15035,6178,111,139,69,1118,213,5163,1361,1237,1524],"class_list":["post-469240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-charge","tag-crash","tag-faces","tag-killed","tag-manslaughter","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-sports","tag-teen","tag-that","tag-two","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469240","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=469240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}