{"id":594708,"date":"2026-09-09T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594708\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:38:09","slug":"kaihu-dog-attack-owner-charged-with-manslaughter-over-mihiata-te-rores-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594708\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaihu dog attack: Owner charged with manslaughter over Mihiata Te Rore\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt has been challenging, and we acknowledge the significance of reaching this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police have been in contact with Te Rore\u2019s wh\u0101nau and extended their sympathies, Pilmer said.<\/p>\n

He also thanked those in the Kaihu community who came forward with information.<\/p>\n

The case has been closely watched in Northland, where dog attacks \u2013 particularly in rural settlements \u2013 have been a recurring concern<\/a>. Te Rore\u2019s death prompted renewed calls for stronger enforcement around dangerous dogs and owner responsibility. <\/p>\n

The three dogs believed to have attacked Te Rore were destroyed by Kaipara District Council shortly afterwards. <\/p>\n

The matter is before the courts and police say they will not be making further comment.<\/p>\n

Sarah Curtis is a news reporter for the Northern Advocate. She has 20 years\u2019 experience in journalism, most of which she spent covering court in Gisborne and on the East Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt has been challenging, and we acknowledge the significance of reaching this stage.\u201d Police have been in contact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[293088,74,11924,89,1558,13239,634,9219,42,160178,3375,15035,160598,43,1523,2738,160599,167185,8690,1361,1961,40,38,41,39,102,379],"class_list":["post-594708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-62yearold","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-attack","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-death","tag-dog","tag-headlines","tag-kaihu","tag-killed","tag-manslaughter","tag-mihiata","tag-news","tag-over","tag-owner","tag-rore","tag-rores","tag-te","tag-that","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594708","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=594708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}