{"id":12687,"date":"2025-02-14T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12687"},"modified":"2025-02-14T05:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:52:46","slug":"man-accused-of-nelson-policewomans-murder-due-in-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12687","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of Nelson policewoman&#8217;s murder due in High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man accused of murdering Nelson policewoman Lyn Fleming is due to appear in the High Court this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Fleming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/537988\/police-officer-dies-from-injuries-in-nelson-commissioner-confirms\">was one of two officers struck by a vehicle<\/a>\u00a0in Nelson&#8217;s Buxton Square, about 2am on New Year&#8217;s Day. She later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old faces eight charges, including murder, attempted murder and using a vehicle as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested at the scene and first appeared in the Nelson District Court on 3 January. He has been in custody, since then.<\/p>\n<p>An interim order\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/538595\/death-of-nelson-police-officer-lyn-fleming-name-suppression-extended-for-accused\">suppressing the man&#8217;s name<\/a>\u00a0is in place, until his appearance on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said Fleming was widely respected and her death was &#8220;tragic and senseless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming, 62, had been an officer for 38 years, and was the first policewoman killed in the line of duty in New Zealand. Hundreds turned out to her funeral on 16 January, which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/539152\/slain-police-officer-lyn-fleming-farewelled-as-a-life-saver-and-fearless-station-matriarch\">held with full police honours<\/a>, at Nelson&#8217;s Trafalgar Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man accused of murdering Nelson policewoman Lyn Fleming is due to appear in the High Court this morning. Senior Sergeant Fleming\u00a0was one of two officers struck by a vehicle\u00a0in Nelson&#8217;s Buxton Square, about 2am on New Year&#8217;s Day. She later died from her injuries. A 32-year-old faces eight charges, including murder, attempted murder and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12689,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions\/12689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}