Overview
- Four people died at the Sanson property on Saturday afternoon, including three children and an adult, according to police.
- The children were named by friends on a Givealittle page as August, Hugo and Goldie, aged 7, 5 and 1, and the adult is understood to be their father, Dean Field.
- Police recovered two children on Sunday and the third child on Monday, with family performing a karakia during the removals.
- Media reports say investigators are exploring a suspected triple murder-suicide, while police caution it is too early to determine intent and they have not ruled the incident a homicide.
- Manawatū police say the adult was not burned, postmortems are planned this week, no one else is being sought, and donations for the children’s mother have surpassed NZ$158,000.