{"id":8351,"date":"2023-11-08T17:14:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2023-11-08T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:14:22","slug":"ellerslie-homicide-injuries-violent-and-consistent-with-foul-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8351","title":{"rendered":"Ellerslie homicide: Injuries ‘violent, and consistent with foul play’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A post-mortem has confirmed the man who died in Ellerslie received injuries that were “violent, and consistent with foul play”, police say.<\/p>\n

A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of the 66-year-old man at a Celtic Crescent address.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the man’s home about 8pm Monday after he was found by a relative. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

“While Police had always been treating this investigation as a homicide due to our initial enquiries, the post-mortem has sadly confirmed the injuries received to the victim are violent, and consistent with foul play.<\/p>\n

“Police now believe the victim died prior to Sunday afternoon as a result of the injuries sustained,” Detective Inspector Beard said.<\/p>\n

Beard said police were still appealing for information on the whereabouts of the man’s wife.<\/p>\n

She was last at the property over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Mei Han Chong\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“We are very concerned for the safety and wellbeing of Mei Han Chong.<\/p>\n

“Police have not yet located 67-year-old, nor the vehicle (a blue Kia Rio, registration NJN927) which belongs to the family.<\/p>\n

“No piece of information is insignificant as we work to determine exactly what has occurred.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday Beard said police had made inquiries to see if Chong has left New Zealand but at this stage that did not appear to be the case.<\/p>\n

Asked if she was a suspect, he said they were keeping an open mind about what happened, and she could instead be a victim.<\/p>\n

Beard told\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0car was driven by the deceased man<\/a>\u00a0from the North Shore just after 11pm Saturday 4 October. He could not say if his wife was in the car too.<\/p>\n

A scene investigation continues and police would remain in the area in the coming days, he said.<\/p>\n

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Police said a scene examination would take two or three days.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Finn Blackwell<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post-mortem has confirmed the man who died in Ellerslie received injuries that were “violent, and consistent with foul play”, police say. A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of the 66-year-old man at a Celtic Crescent address. Police were called to the man’s home about 8pm Monday after he was found by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","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\/8351","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=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}