{"id":526906,"date":"2026-07-15T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:09:09","slug":"west-auckland-man-charged-after-attack-on-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526906\/","title":{"rendered":"West Auckland man charged after attack on bus driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs the driver parked up to let a passenger off, the offender entered the bus and allegedly assaulted the driver before fleeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">The driver was taken to hospital with facial injuries and is at home recovering.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A 34-year-old man was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A 34-year-old man was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicle involved in the incident with the bus was a rental and officers linked it to a suspect, with a man arrested in M\u0101ngere later in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Goldie said it was unacceptable violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice do not tolerate any violence on public transport, and we will continue to locate and prosecute these offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">A 34-year-old man will appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court today, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs the driver parked up to let a passenger off, the offender entered the bus and allegedly assaulted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,89,51,1558,30482,13239,19552,5158,111,43,139,69,90,3807],"class_list":["post-526906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-bus","tag-charged","tag-driver","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526906","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=526906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}