{"id":587405,"date":"2026-09-02T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:30:09","slug":"justin-jeffries-pleads-guilty-to-rotorua-triple-murder-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587405\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Jeffries pleads guilty to Rotorua triple murder charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Jeffries also admitted wounding Adam Sour with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on September 23 in Rotorua, burgling an Old Taupo Rd building and unlawfully using Schiller\u2019s bank card with the intent to obtain property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Family of the deceased were in court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">They told Rotorua Daily Post they were pleased they would no longer have to endure a trial, which had been scheduled to start next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Jeffries will be sentenced on December 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/kelly-makiha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffries also admitted wounding Adam Sour with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on September 23 in Rotorua,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1873,3368,199103,17468,39575,4275,15360,111,43,139,69,384,3373,3367,1327,1529,61,27561],"class_list":["post-587405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-charges","tag-guilty","tag-jeffries","tag-justin","tag-mamaku","tag-murder","tag-murdering","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-pleaded","tag-pleads","tag-rotorua","tag-three","tag-to","tag-triple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587405","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=587405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}