Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man reported missing from the Lake Macquarie area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kobi Hayward, aged 24, was last seen at a hospital in Morisset, shortly after 10am on Monday (13 April 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police and family hold concerns for his welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kobi is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 170cm to 180cm tall, of medium build, with black hair and is unshaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was last seen wearing a grey\/black Nike jumper, tracksuit pants, a black beanie and Ugg boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kobi is known to frequent the Charlestown areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man reported missing from the Lake Macquarie area. Kobi Hayward, aged 24, was last seen at a hospital in Morisset, shortly after 10am on Monday (13 April 2026). When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and … Continue reading “Appeal to locate man missing from Morisset”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38430,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions\/38430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}