{"id":539645,"date":"2026-07-23T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539645\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:37:09","slug":"victim-seriously-hurt-in-octagon-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539645\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim seriously hurt in Octagon assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are hunting a man in connection with\u00a0an alleged assault in the Octagon which left the victim with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0assault in Dunedin\u2019s city centre was reported around 1am on Sunday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim received serious injuries and was transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are being provided with support,\u201d police\u00a0said in statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released a photograph of a man they believe\u00a0may be able to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information is asked to contact police online at <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2F105.police.govt.nz%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExMTBwaTVyMm8xaHZ0aFltd3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6gNp_q7vWZOXGfSAF-hwiO7424nbMsLvsckHC8g1o_Jq4aVYRpgWVKCz_Sng_aem_gjj5oyB7EwXs9R6WIdhvhg&amp;h=AUDXzUfumglQFkC1MXXhRY6HsQxirQmq3uJC7XnbqipQISpLISFHgsDJEMVScoS6m1zxSUfoQssGTB7MDfr5oRYmNUaZU-Mr6OTBAwuDjesAUMEjIYXIVcfhaUs2I7oU0L4Y3dO5CTW-47-y&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AUB8fg3fKy5N6mKDGIIszuWNjNvSUWFr0NbRCram68M-6ICScE8FIFn56Ej0yxRB2cwiBdBHDVn1h3z-Nz5hh6h7YqxpA879Ptl3qcGCiWTGNQw7T1-cce8XmRYUpAuj7lDNV1WnHWvMGdd4d8wbdNOZemvTO-dSK7ZFhfsE8Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">105.police.govt.nz<\/a> or call 105.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting a man in connection with\u00a0an alleged assault in the Octagon which left the victim with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-539645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539645","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=539645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}