{"id":629053,"date":"2026-10-13T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629053\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:26:10","slug":"large-pool-of-human-blood-in-wellington-tunnel-not-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629053\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Large&#8217; pool of human blood in Wellington tunnel not suspicious"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/09\/mystery-pool-of-blood-in-wellington-tunnel-prompts-police-appeal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;large&#8221; pool of human blood<\/a> found in a Wellington pedestrian tunnel more than a week ago has been deemed &#8220;not of a suspicious nature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Around 10.40pm on October 4, police were called after blood was found in the Coutts St pedestrian underpass in Rongotai, which runs under Wellington Airport to Miro St in Miramar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#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 at the time.<\/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-565WK4N5ANH4NOGMEBJLAWZ36A.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 class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In an update this afternoon, police said officers &#8220;can confirm the matter is not of a suspicious nature, and no further police involvement is required&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police would like to thank those who brought this to our attention, and all that provided information after the fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were unable to confirm to 1News the circumstances behind the discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;large&#8221; pool of human blood found in a Wellington pedestrian tunnel more than a week ago has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-629053","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-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629053","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=629053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}