{"id":615964,"date":"2026-09-30T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:24:09","slug":"manslaughter-charge-after-boy-5-found-dead-at-napier-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615964\/","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter charge after boy, 5, found dead at Napier beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/02\/06\/body-found-at-beach-in-napier-overnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of a 5-year-old boy<\/a> found in the water in Napier in February.<\/p>\n<p>Around 8.30pm on February 5, emergency services were called to Westshore Beach following reports of a body in the water. The body of a five-year-old boy was found and recovered at around 1.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The child went missing in the Westshore area sometime between 6pm and 8.30pm that day, Detective Sergeant Ryan Kemsley of Hawke&#8217;s Bay Crime Squad said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Kate Hyde today said a 64-year-old woman had been charged with manslaughter after an &#8220;extensive and careful investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She first appeared in Napier District Court on Wednesday and was due to reappear on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>Hyde said the investigation was treated with sensitivity and the decision to lay charges wasn\u2019t taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a tragic event for our community, and our thoughts are with the young boy\u2019s family at this troubling and difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of a 5-year-old boy found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20277,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-615964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-hawke-s-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615964","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=615964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}