{"id":618618,"date":"2026-10-02T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:42:09","slug":"rotorua-triple-homicide-man-charged-with-assault-bailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618618\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua triple homicide: Man charged with assault bailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/11\/police-probe-into-rotorua-triple-homicide-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged with assault<\/a> in relation to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/08\/man-appears-in-court-after-woman-two-children-killed-in-rotorua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triple homicide in Rotorua<\/a> has been granted bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services arrived at the home on High St in Glenholme shortly before 10.30pm on September 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They found the bodies of two young children, aged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/09\/children-killed-in-traumatic-rotorua-homicide-aged-3-11-months\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3 years and 11 months old<\/a>, along with a critically injured woman who died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police began a homicide investigation and a man in his early 20s appeared in the Rotorua District Court the following day, charged with assaulting a person in a family relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He reappeared in court today and was granted electronically monitored bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Name suppression was ordered to continue until his next appearance in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/crime-and-justice\/1681732\/man-charged-in-relation-to-rotorua-triple-homicide-granted-bail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man charged with assault in relation to a triple homicide in Rotorua has been granted bail. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-618618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618618","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=618618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}