{"id":624907,"date":"2026-10-09T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:30:12","slug":"mystery-pool-of-blood-in-wellington-tunnel-prompts-police-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624907\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery pool of blood in Wellington tunnel prompts police appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery pool of blood found in a Wellington pedestrian tunnel has prompted an appeal from police. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;large&#8221; pool was found in the tunnel at Coutts Street in Rongotai, which runs under Wellington Airport to Miro Street in Miramar, after police were called at around 10.40pm on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further enquiries have determined the blood was human blood, and police did not locate anybody in the surrounding areas at the time of attendance,&#8221; Senior Sergeant Steve Wescott said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a-large-pool-of-human-blood-was-found-in-this-wellington-ped-L47DSYXBCRH47EBMZRS7RZUVCQ.jpg\" alt=\"A &quot;large pool&quot; of human blood was found in this Wellington pedestrian tunnel on Sunday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A &#8220;large pool&#8221; of human blood was found in this Wellington pedestrian tunnel on Sunday. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Police called on the public to help establish what happened and identify anyone involved.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is a person involved, our priority is to check on their welfare.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Investigators wanted to hear from anyone who was in the area near the tunnel prior to 10.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additionally, anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the surrounding areas is encouraged to contact police,&#8221; Wescott said. <\/p>\n<p>Information could be provided via 105. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mystery pool of blood found in a Wellington pedestrian tunnel has prompted an appeal from police. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-624907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624907","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=624907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}