{"id":80057,"date":"2025-10-15T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:15:09","slug":"gisborne-youth-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-green-party-mp-benjamin-doyle-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80057\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisborne youth accused of threatening to kill Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\"> The youth\u2019s bail conditions include not to associate with  Doyle, and not to threaten violence to person or property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\tCharging documents state the youth made his threat to kill earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The charge carries a maximum term of seven years in prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The youth is also charged under the Harmful Digital Communications Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">During the same period, he is alleged to have posted Instagram messages with the intent to cause harm and which allegedly caused serious emotional distress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">This carries a maximum penalty of two years\u2019 jail and a maximum fine of $50,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The youth\u2019s bail conditions include not to associate with Doyle, and not to threaten violence to person or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,27605,16425,48469,1349,7557,61751,1888,12506,2518,78,14910,1362,1329,6368,111,43,139,69,1118,24637,4762,12419,61,1865,1079],"class_list":["post-80057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accused","tag-appearance","tag-appears","tag-benjamin","tag-court","tag-district","tag-doyle","tag-first","tag-gisborne","tag-green","tag-in","tag-kill","tag-made","tag-member","tag-mp","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parliament","tag-party","tag-threatening","tag-to","tag-today","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80057","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=80057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}