{"id":1955,"date":"2022-12-21T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:04:05","slug":"family-of-young-woman-allegedly-killed-in-massey-call-accused-coward-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Family of young woman allegedly killed in Massey call accused ‘coward’ in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family and friends of the\u00a0Auckland woman<\/a>\u00a0who died in West Auckland yelled \u201cyou coward\u201d at the man who is accused of her murder.<\/p>\n

The woman was Farzana Yaqubi who was part of the Hazara community in Auckland.<\/p>\n

Police launched a homicide investigation after Yaqubi\u2019s death in Massey on Monday evening and on Tuesday a 30-year-old man charged with murder.<\/p>\n

The man appeared at Wait\u0101kere District Court on Wednesday in front of Judge June Jelas.<\/p>\n

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His lawyer, Paul Borich KC, sought interim name suppression so his family in India could be notified of the murder charge.<\/p>\n

The accused was remanded in custody without plea to appear at the High Court in February.<\/p>\n

Family and friends of the Yaqubi sat quietly in the courtroom while the accused appeared but as he left they screamed.<\/p>\n

They yelled \u201chow could you, you coward, she was just a child,\u201d and had to be escorted out of the courtroom.<\/p>\n

They also yelled: \u201c\u201cYou f\u2026ing bastard,\u201d the yelled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Police<\/div>
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STUFF<\/cite><\/div>\n
Police investigating the sudden death of a woman in Massey.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of the Auckland Afghan community have been left shaken after her death.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Fayyaz, spokesperson for the United Hazara Association of Auckland, said his community was \u201cin shock\u201d over the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cTragic news, when I heard it, our family, everyone is shocked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fayyaz said Auckland wasn\u2019t safe any more and his family had thought about moving to Australia as the employees for his removal and parts business were receiving abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to say this was heaven, it was a country where we felt safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fayyaz said there were a couple of thousand ethnic Hazaras in Auckland, with most coming from the Tampa. In 2001 438 refugees were rescued by the\u00a0Norwegian container ship Tampa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday night, Wait\u0101kere Badminton Centre president Peter Beckerleg\u200b said police locked down the hall and told people not to go in or out as the incident unfolded about 6pm.<\/p>\n

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\"Police<\/div>
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RICKY WILSON\/STUFF<\/cite><\/div>\n
Police are continuing their investigation into the death of a woman in Massey.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know the details, but it’s terrible for the people involved. The centre is usually a safe place, it\u2019s a family space.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think what happened had anything do with badminton,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Nick Poland said officers were called to a property on Royal Road at 5.45pm on Monday after receiving reports of a \u201cseriously injured\u201d woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, she died at the scene,\u201d Poland said.<\/p>\n

Source – Stuff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family and friends of the\u00a0Auckland woman\u00a0who died in West Auckland yelled \u201cyou coward\u201d at the man who is accused of her murder. The woman was Farzana Yaqubi who was part of the Hazara community in Auckland. Police launched a homicide investigation after Yaqubi\u2019s death in Massey on Monday evening and on Tuesday a 30-year-old man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,174],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-nz-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}