{"id":9765,"date":"2020-12-23T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:37:14","slug":"renewed-appeal-to-find-missing-man-muswellbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/renewed-appeal-to-find-missing-man-muswellbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed appeal to find missing man &#8211; Muswellbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police have released a new image as they renew their appeal for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter Region earlier this month.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vainenooroa Tuaratini (known as \u2018Scotty\u2019), aged 25, was last seen on Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, about 3am on Saturday 9 December 2020.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Officers from the Hunter Valley Police District were notified of his disappearance later that morning and along with his family have concerns for his welfare due to a medical condition.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vainenooroa is described as being of Pacific Islander appearance, about 175cm tall, of solid build, with brown eyes and short black hair.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It has since been established that Vainenooroa got off a train at Redfern about 5.45am the same day. In CCTV footage, he is depicted wearing a green t-shirt and camouflage shorts.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He resides in the Belmore area and frequents Lakemba.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As inquiries continue, anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Muswellbrook Police Station or Triple Zero (000).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released a new image as they renew their appeal for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter Region earlier this month. Vainenooroa Tuaratini (known as \u2018Scotty\u2019), aged 25, was last seen on Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, about 3am on Saturday 9 December 2020. Officers from the Hunter Valley Police District were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/renewed-appeal-to-find-missing-man-muswellbrook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renewed appeal to find missing man &#8211; Muswellbrook&#8221;<\/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-9765","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\/9765","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=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}