{"id":14598,"date":"2025-08-08T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14598"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:00:33","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-nelson-police-officer-lyn-fleming-named-as-hayden-tasker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14598","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing Nelson police officer Lyn Fleming named as Hayden Tasker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/557902\/man-accused-of-killing-police-officer-lyn-fleming-keeps-name-suppression\">man accused of killing Nelson police officer Lyn Fleming<\/a>\u00a0can now be named as 32-year-old Hayden Donald Jason Tasker.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming was killed in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Day after being struck by a vehicle while she was on foot patrol in central Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Her colleague Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay was critically injured and required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>A third police officer was assessed for concussion. Two members of the public were also injured.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--amv_BYzN--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1735700915\/4KE95XT_lyn_fleming_1_1_25_png?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Officer Lyn Fleming was killed in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Day.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tasker entered not guilty pleas in February to six charges, including murder, attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard for safety and three charges of dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>He entered guilty pleas to two charges &#8211; driving while disqualified and driving with a blood alcohol level of more than 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sally Fitzgerald made an order revoking his name suppression in the High Court at Wellington, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A provisional trial date has been set for May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0man accused of killing Nelson police officer Lyn Fleming\u00a0can now be named as 32-year-old Hayden Donald Jason Tasker. Fleming was killed in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Day after being struck by a vehicle while she was on foot patrol in central Nelson. Her colleague Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay was critically injured and required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14598","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\/14598","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=14598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14600,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions\/14600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}