Investigations are still ongoing into the deaths of two people at a property in Bay of Plenty's Pukehina earlier this month
Investigations are still ongoing into the deaths of two people at a property in Bay of Plenty's Pukehina earlier this month
12 January 2026
A woman was found dead at an address on Old Coach Road on January the 1st - which is being treated as suspicious.
A man was later found dead in another house on the same property just after 2am the following day - that is being treated as unexplained.
Police say a 50-year-old man is due to reappear in Tauranga District Court at the end of the month on a charge of assaulting a person in a family relationship.
They say they're focused on investigating the events that led to the two deaths.
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