A person has died outside an Auckland building that houses offices for National Party MPs.<\/p>\n
Police said officers were called to Great South Rd in Epsom at 7.50am today after \u201creports a person had been located unresponsive\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon police arrival, the person was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe death is not believed to be suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n
The building includes offices for National List MPs Paul Goldsmith, Melissa Lee and Nancy Lu.<\/p>\n
National MP Paul Goldsmith said: “This will naturally be an extremely upsetting situation for anyone involved, and it would be inappropriate to politicise it, or to comment further.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased.”<\/p>\n
‘I thought he was a homeless person’<\/p>\n
Local business owner Jay Dai told 1News he arrived at work about 7.28am and saw a man he believed was sleeping outside the entrance to Paul Goldsmith\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
“I thought he was a homeless person sleeping on the ground.”<\/p>\n
He thought it was unusual for the man to have no blanket, but did not approach him.<\/p>\n
About 15 minutes later, another business owner texted to say the man was dead. Dai went outside and saw the white cloth covering him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was then I realised, \u2018Holy sh*t, he wasn\u2019t sleeping’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died outside an Auckland building that houses offices for National Party MPs. Police said officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-583122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583122","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=583122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}