{"id":479495,"date":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479495\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","slug":"police-hunt-for-inmate-who-didnt-return-after-compassionate-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479495\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for inmate who didn&#8217;t return after compassionate leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4JMXWMU_rawiri_wta_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1570\" alt=\"Daniel Rawiri\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDaniel Rawiri.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>A Papakura man who failed to return to prison after being granted compassionate bail is actively avoiding authorities, say police.<\/p>\n<p>A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Daniel Rawiri, 29, who was granted compassionate bail by the courts on 27 May.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Taylor said police knew Rawiri was aware that they were looking for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public should not approach Rawiri, but if you do see him call 111 instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor said Rawiri has connections across the south Auckland and Waikato regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Rawiri. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ Police A Papakura man who failed to return to prison after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-479495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479495","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=479495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}