Police cordoned off the area where the woman's body was found. Photo: RNZ
A man has been arrested after the death of a woman in Marewa, in Napier, on Friday morning.
Police were called to a house on Nuffield Avenue about 4.25am after a woman was found unresponsive.
She died at the scene. She was 34-year-old Arohaina Henare, of Marewa.
Armed police were among those at the house on Friday as a homicide invesigation began.
Late yesterday afternoon, a 48-year-old man known to the victim was arrested, and has now been charged with murder, police said in a statement.
He is due to appear in the Hastings District Court tomorrow.