Police have launched a homicide investigation after the death of a woman in Newlands this morning.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Haley Ryan said police are currently speaking with a man, who is assisting with enquiries.<\/p>\n
She said emergency services were called to Gahagan Way around 4am where the woman was found dead inside a property.<\/p>\n
A scene guard is in place and there is not believed to be any risk to the public, she said.<\/p>\n
“As part of our enquiries, we’d like to speak with anyone who has any information, or witnessed any suspicious activity in the area overnight.<\/p>\n
“Additionally, we’re interested in any CCTV or dashcam footage from Gahagan Way, or surrounding streets, including Newlands Road and Stewart Drive, between 12pm Friday and 5am today.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact police via 105, either over the phone or online at 105.police.govt.nz, referencing the file number 260919\/1067.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched a homicide investigation after the death of a woman in Newlands this morning. Detective Inspector…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-604962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604962","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=604962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}