{"id":514874,"date":"2026-07-07T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/514874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:32:08","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-womans-death-in-tokoroa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/514874\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after woman&#8217;s death in Tokoroa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 39-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/19\/police-investigate-after-woman-dies-in-tokoroa-overnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tokoroa last month<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to an address on Hinau St after a woman was found unresponsive shortly before midnight on June 18. <\/p>\n<p>Taup\u014d Area Investigations Manager Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Yardley said at the time &#8220;sadly, she was pronounced dead at the scene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today he said: &#8220;Police can now name her as 47-year-old Michelle Tangimataiti, of Tokoroa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The mornings headlines in 90 seconds include weather chaos in the South Island, Police reopening cases around concerns of an officer and a toddler found alive in a US morgue. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old man has now been charged with her murder, and will appear in Tokoroa District Court today. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police continue to support Michelle\u2019s family at this extremely difficult time,&#8221; Yardley said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman in Tokoroa last month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-514874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/514874","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=514874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}