{"id":5324,"date":"2023-06-06T22:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:05:52","slug":"man-charged-following-death-of-kaikohe-woman-linda-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5324","title":{"rendered":"Man charged following death of Kaikohe woman Linda Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested and charged a man with manslaughter, burglary and aggravated assault in connection with the death of Linda Woods in Kaikohe last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested and charged a man with manslaughter, burglary and aggravated assault in connection with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/491321\/sexually-motivated-burglary-led-to-death-of-kaikohe-woman-linda-woods-police-believe\">death of Linda Woods<\/a>\u00a0in Kaikohe last week.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, 71, died Thursday night after being injured during a struggle when a person broke into her Taraire Street property.<\/p>\n<p>The offender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/491219\/intruder-fled-barefoot-after-kaikohe-woman-s-death\">fled barefoot without his shorts<\/a>\u00a0following what police said earlier this week was probably a sexually motivated burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Police executed a search warrant on the same Kaikohe street where the attack happened earlier on Tuesday, before announcing the arrest of a 52-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>He went into custody without incident, and will appear in Kaikohe District Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Woods&#8217; niece at the weekend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/491262\/kaikohe-killer-pulled-out-victim-s-breathing-tubes-family-claim\">told media she was on dialysis<\/a>, and the intruder ripped out her breathing tubes.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Monday said they had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/491366\/kaikohe-homicide-investigation-police-find-dna-believed-to-be-linked-to-intruder\">found DNA<\/a>\u00a0believed to be linked to the offender.<\/p>\n<p>Cellphone footage of part of the incident showed the back of the alleged offender&#8217;s head. Police said he was aged between 40 and 60, &#8220;with short, grey-speckled, possibly curly hair, M\u0101ori or Polynesian and with a solid build&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Tuesday thanked the community, particularly those who had supplied information during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Source RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested and charged a man with manslaughter, burglary and aggravated assault in connection with the death of Linda Woods in Kaikohe last week. Police have arrested and charged a man with manslaughter, burglary and aggravated assault in connection with the\u00a0death of Linda Woods\u00a0in Kaikohe last week. Woods, 71, died Thursday night after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","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\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}