{"id":13908,"date":"2025-06-06T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:28:25","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-hamilton-woman-struck-by-ute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13908","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder of Hamilton woman struck by ute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with the murder of a Hamilton woman who died after she was struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Jayde Gilbert, 30, was hit by a gold-coloured ute while standing next to a power pole at the corner of Ohaupo Road and Kahikatea Drive, near Waikato Hospital in May.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/561105\/woman-killed-as-vehicle-hits-her-and-power-pole-in-hamilton-homicide-probe-launched\">homicide investigation was launched<\/a>, and police on Friday said they had made an arrested that morning.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in court on Friday afternoon, charged with Gilbert&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the investigation team, I would like to thank the people who assisted Jayde after she was struck by the vehicle, and the many members of our community who responded to our appeals for information,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Neilson said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in court on Friday afternoon, charged with Gilbert&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>A witness working at a shop nearby said a lot of people tried to help Gilbert after she was struck.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral notice from Grinter&#8217;s Funeral Home in Cambridge said Gilbert was a loved daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, friend, and mother of two children.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert&#8217;s mother started a Give a Little page to help support Gilbert&#8217;s two children, calling it an &#8220;extremely devastating time&#8221;. As of Friday, it had raised nearly $3500.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with the murder of a Hamilton woman who died after she was struck by a vehicle. Jayde Gilbert, 30, was hit by a gold-coloured ute while standing next to a power pole at the corner of Ohaupo Road and Kahikatea Drive, near Waikato Hospital in May. A\u00a0homicide investigation was launched, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908","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=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13910,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions\/13910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}