{"id":478091,"date":"2026-06-15T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478091\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:20:09","slug":"cause-of-death-confirmed-for-infant-found-on-side-of-blenheim-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/478091\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death confirmed for infant found on side of Blenheim road"},"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 have confirmed the cause of death for an infant found on the side of the road in Blenheim last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/20\/body-of-baby-discovered-on-side-of-the-road-in-blenheim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On May 19<\/a>, police were called to Wairau Bar Rd just before 1.30pm after a machinery operator found the infant&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Today, police Inspector Simon Feltham said a post-mortem examination had found the baby was stillborn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police are still urgently appealing for the family of the infant to come forward, as we are concerned for the welfare of the mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We would like to ensure she is safe and can receive any appropriate treatment or support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Feltham added police would also like to discuss options with the family around the baby&#8217;s remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Anyone with information which may help police locate the mother or other family are asked to get in touch with police via 105, either over the phone or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have confirmed the cause of death for an infant found on the side of the road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,16256,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-478091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-marlborough","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\/478091","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=478091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}