{"id":58075,"date":"2023-09-05T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/new-zealand-judge-dismisses-charges-against-white-island-volcano-owners"},"modified":"2023-09-05T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:44:52","slug":"new-zealand-judge-dismisses-charges-against-white-island-volcano-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58075","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand judge dismisses charges against White Island volcano owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Individual charges against Andrew, James and Peter Buttle dropped, though their company still faces charges over deadly eruption<\/p>\n<p>The three brothers who owned Whakaari\/White Island at the time of its deadly eruption had the individual charges against them thrown out by a New Zealand judge on Tuesday, two months into their trial.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden eruption in December 2019 came as tour groups were visiting the island volcano. The explosion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/white-island-anniversary-passes-quietly-with-healing-and-reckoning-far-from-over\">killed 22 people<\/a>, 17 of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/white-island-volcano-australian-survivor-shares-pain-of-leaving-family-after-eruption-as-trial-continues\">Australians<\/a>, and seriously injured 25 others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/new-zealand-judge-dismisses-charges-against-white-island-volcano-owners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual charges against Andrew, James and Peter Buttle dropped, though their company still faces charges over deadly eruptionThe three brothers who owned Whakaari\/White Island at the time of its deadly eruption had the individual charges against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,56,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58076,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58075\/revisions\/58076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}