{"id":655599,"date":"2026-11-09T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655599\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:56:22","slug":"kawerau-homicide-victim-named-as-lorraine-hoete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655599\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawerau homicide: Victim named as Lorraine Hoete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Hoete was found dead in a bedroom with traumatic injuries to her head and face, Coroner Bruce Hesketh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/kawerau-homicide-inquiry-coroners-order-means-woman-and-man-cannot-be-named-yet\/NET5FBFTLJH3PLF7WU6VPU6JWQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/kawerau-homicide-inquiry-coroners-order-means-woman-and-man-cannot-be-named-yet\/NET5FBFTLJH3PLF7WU6VPU6JWQ\/\">said in a ruling<\/a> issued November 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Her name was suppressed until 5pm today at the request of police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Police argued publication of Hoete\u2019s name could hamper their homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">At the time, police were unable to speak to the man involved in the crash due to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Curragh said today the investigation into Hoete\u2019s death was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice continue to work hard to find answers for her family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information was asked to contact police on 105, quoting file number 261025\/1492.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Information may also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoete was found dead in a bedroom with traumatic injuries to her head and face, Coroner Bruce Hesketh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,690,1874,305,321219,8916,4881,8845,10136,111,43,139,69,675,814,1337,1354],"class_list":["post-655599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-dead","tag-found","tag-have","tag-hoete","tag-homicide","tag-kawerau","tag-lorraine","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-property","tag-victim","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655599","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=655599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}