Police are investigating a woman's murder on Wyvern Pl, Glenfield. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Auckland police have charged a man with murder after a woman died on the way to hospital.
Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Sherer said police had launched a homicide investigation after yesterday’s incident in Glenfield on Auckland’s North Shore.
Police were called to Wyvern Place about 4.25pm yesterday, where officers found the woman seriously injured.
She was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died and was unable to be revived, Sherer said.
A 51-year-old man has been charged with her murder.
He was due to appear in the North Shore District Court today.
A man at the scene, who arrived with a bunch of white flowers, told the Herald the murdered woman was his niece.
“She was a mother of two. She was a beautiful person.”
Several officers in boiler suits, along with detectives and uniformed officers, remain outside the home at 12pm today.
Police were carrying out a scene examination at the address and Sherer said the public should expect an increased police presence in the area.
He said police would release more information when it became available.
Residents in Wyvern Place, a dead-end street nestled in bush next to Eskdale Reserve, were shocked to hear of the woman’s death.
”It’s really unusual [to have police here] because it’s a really quiet street … so we knew something was wrong”, said a man living across the street from where police had put emergency tape around a two-storey home.
”We don’t have much crime down here because it’s a cul-de-sac. People come down here and they get stuck.”
He hadn’t heard anything yesterday afternoon, and wasn’t sure who the victim was as there was more than one residence in the home.
He knew a woman he believed was aged in her 50s lived in a ground level flat.
”We’d see her walking her dog.”
A man would also often visit the woman, but he’d never seen any trouble, the neighbour said.
A few houses down residents were also alarmed by the woman’s death.
”This is a big shock to me, actually”, one said.”This is normally a very quiet street.”
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