{"id":596684,"date":"2026-09-11T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596684\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:50:10","slug":"newlyweds-allegedly-attacked-in-their-sleep-groom-left-with-broken-eye-socket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596684\/","title":{"rendered":"Newlyweds allegedly attacked in their sleep, groom left with broken eye socket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Narusis told the Herald he and his wife have cold sweats, trouble sleeping and flashbacks to the incident. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to keep living a normal life at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair have been staying with members of the Lithuanian community while searching for a new place to live. <\/p>\n

Their contracts at the farm had abruptly ended following the incident. <\/p>\n

A GoFundMe page<\/a> has been set up by a friend to raise money for Aistis\u2019 treatment, which includes visiting a facial surgeon in Christchurch to determine whether surgery will be necessary.<\/p>\n

\"AistisAistis Narusis after the alleged assault this month. <\/p>\n

Funds will also go towards \u201ctemporary accommodation, transportation and other essential costs while they rebuild their sense of safety and begin to recover\u201d. <\/p>\n

Almost \u00a33000 ($6984) of their \u00a35500 ($12,800) goal has been raised. <\/p>\n

A police spokesperson said there was a reported argument and assault between people known to each other, at a property in Twizel, shortly after midnight on September 4. <\/p>\n

Police were dispatched; however, the alleged offender left the scene before officers arrived.<\/p>\n

After follow-up inquiries, a 37-year-old man was arrested in Seddon later the next morning. <\/p>\n

He is due to appear in Timaru District Court on September 15 on a charge of injuring with intent to injure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Narusis told the Herald he and his wife have cold sweats, trouble sleeping and flashbacks to the incident.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,7818,1344,1558,13912,28903,3029,100699,305,78,101,111,150107,139,69,43209,1238,2863,111177,116271,213,165,8229,3608,102],"class_list":["post-596684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-attacked","tag-been","tag-broken","tag-effects","tag-eye","tag-groom","tag-have","tag-in","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-newlyweds","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-psychological","tag-serious","tag-sleep","tag-slept","tag-socket","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-they","tag-were","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596684","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=596684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}