{"id":66682,"date":"2025-10-09T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:41:08","slug":"police-officer-marthinus-anton-keeve-named-in-angel-riley-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66682\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer Marthinus Anton Keeve named in Angel Riley death case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 53-year-old from South Africa joined the Northland police unit in 2017 but since the death of Riley, is now living and working overseas.<\/p>\n

After mounting pressure from the wh\u0101nau of Riley, charges were laid against Keeve in August this year.<\/p>\n

He entered a not guilty plea, elected a trial by jury and was granted interim name suppression.<\/p>\n

At his case review hearing today in the Whang\u0101rei District Court,<\/a> Keeve maintained the not guilty plea through his lawyer, Susan Hughes KC.<\/p>\n

Hughes KC told the court her client did not seek further name suppression and Judge Gus Andree Wiltens declared suppression was now lapsed.<\/p>\n

Keeve did not appear in person or via audio-visual link to which Crown lawyer Richard Annandale submitted he should appear at his next hearing.<\/p>\n

However, Judge Andree Wiltens excused his attendance and his case was remanded through to jury trial callover on December 11.<\/p>\n

Shannon Pitman is a Whang\u0101rei-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the Te Tai Tokerau region. She is of Ng\u0101puhi\/ Ng\u0101ti P\u016bkenga descent and has worked in digital media for the past five years. She joined NZME in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 53-year-old from South Africa joined the Northland police unit in 2017 but since the death of Riley,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4734,53783,1121,634,42,78,53784,53782,10136,43,10932,675,6091,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-66682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-angel","tag-anton","tag-case","tag-death","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-keeve","tag-marthinus","tag-named","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-riley","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66682","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=66682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}