{"id":479653,"date":"2026-06-16T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:47:10","slug":"police-hunt-for-inmate-who-didnt-return-after-compassionate-leave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479653\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for inmate who didn\u2019t return after compassionate leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>16 Jun, 2026 04:18 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Daniel Rawiri. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Papakura man who failed to return to prison after being granted compassionate bail is actively avoiding authorities, say police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Daniel Rawiri, 29, who was granted compassionate bail by the courts on May 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Taylor<br \/>\n         said police knew Rawiri was aware that they were looking for him.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe public should not approach Rawiri, but if you do see him call 111 instead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 16 Jun, 2026 04:18 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,76551,17898,2082,42,10937,44161,12514,43,675,1527,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":["post-479653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-compassionate","tag-didnt","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-hunt","tag-inmate","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-police","tag-return","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479653","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=479653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}