{"id":618412,"date":"2026-10-02T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618412\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:56:11","slug":"rotorua-triple-homicide-man-charged-with-assault-granted-electronic-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618412\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua triple homicide: Man charged with assault granted electronic bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman died at the scene.<\/p>\n

A homicide investigation into their deaths continues.<\/p>\n

The man was charged with assault the next day and has been in custody since.<\/p>\n

Ten members of the public were present for his court appearance, and two women were visibly upset.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s lawyer, Gerard Walsh, asked Judge John Bergseng to release the man on electronically monitored bail.<\/p>\n

Crown Solicitor Amanda Gordon, who appeared on behalf of police, said there were no grounds for police to oppose bail, given the charge he faced.<\/p>\n

Judge Bergseng remanded the man to a property outside Rotorua and said he was to be electronically monitored with an ankle bracelet.<\/p>\n

Among the bail conditions were that he was allowed to be away from the property to exercise on Mondays and Thursdays between 10am and midday.<\/p>\n

The other conditions of his bail were not read in open court.<\/p>\n

He is to reappear in the Rotorua District Court on January 21, when his name suppression is due to lapse.<\/p>\n

Bay of Plenty Acting District Commander Inspector Logan Marsh previously said police were not seeking anyone else in connection to the case.<\/p>\n

Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for 30 years covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman died at the scene. A homicide investigation into their deaths continues. The man was charged with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5921,17704,19197,13239,19196,42,8916,5158,43,1327,40,38,41,39,27561,102],"class_list":["post-618412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-electronic","tag-assault","tag-bail","tag-charged","tag-granted","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-man","tag-news","tag-rotorua","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-triple","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618412","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=618412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}