{"id":642397,"date":"2026-10-27T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642397\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:10:10","slug":"myers-park-attempted-murder-case-suppression-granted-for-man-accused-of-auckland-child-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642397\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers Park attempted murder case: Suppression granted for man accused of Auckland child attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe child\u2019s family have been advised and are being supported,\u201d Auckland City District Commander Superintendent Sunny Patel said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice are not seeking anyone else in relation to the incident, nor do we believe there is any ongoing risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police at Myers Park in central Auckland after the incident. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupai\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police at Myers Park in central Auckland after the incident. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupai<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">If convicted of attempted murder, the man could face up to 14 years\u2019 imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">No pleas were entered on the man\u2019s behalf during today\u2019s brief hearing. The defendant will have another opportunity to do so when the case is called again at the High Court next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/craig-kapitan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Kapitan<\/a> is an Auckland-based journalist covering courts and justice. He joined the Herald in 2021 and has reported on courts since 2002 in three newsrooms in the US and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe child\u2019s family have been advised and are being supported,\u201d Auckland City District Commander Superintendent Sunny Patel said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,12642,89,5765,51,1121,1853,13239,2511,15293,1349,2082,19196,122076,5158,4275,93280,111,43,139,69,1118,1523,8143,13618,1865,24927,4767,102],"class_list":["post-642397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-appear","tag-attack","tag-attempted","tag-auckland","tag-case","tag-central","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-continued","tag-court","tag-for","tag-granted","tag-hospitalisation","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-myers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-over","tag-park","tag-suppression","tag-today","tag-unable","tag-weekend","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642397","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=642397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}