BREAKING NEWS: All Blacks star’s car crash death is ‘being treated as a suspected suicide’

  • Maori All Black died in a crash in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region last week
  • His death is ‘being treated as a suspected suicide’ the Coroner has confirmed
  • Super Rugby star was laid to rest in a funeral in Gisborne just two days earlier 
  • Coroner has placed interim suppression orders around details of his death 

By Olivia Day and Michael Pickering For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:29 BST, 25 October 2021 | Updated: 23:47 BST, 25 October 2021


The death of the Maori All Blacks star who was killed in a horror car crash last week is being investigated as a suspected suicide. 

Super Rugby star Sean Wainui, 25, died in a car accident near Tauranga in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region last week.

Coroner Louella Dunn has confirmed to the NZ Herald his death ‘is being treated as a suspected suicide’ just days after Wainui’s funeral took place in Gisborne. 

Ms Dunn has made provisional suppression orders around the circumstances of the player’s death meaning no further details can be released. 

The death of Maori All Blacks star Sean Wainui (pictured) who was killed in a tragic car crash last week is being investigated as a suspected suicide, a Coroner has confirmed

The death of Maori All Blacks star Sean Wainui (pictured) who was killed in a tragic car crash last week is being investigated as a suspected suicide, a Coroner has confirmed

The revelation comes just days after his grieving wife Paige (pictured) posted an emotional tribute to her husband after she finally laid his body to rest.

The revelation comes just days after his grieving wife Paige (pictured) posted an emotional tribute to her husband after she finally laid his body to rest.

The revelation comes just days after his grieving wife Paige (pictured) posted an emotional tribute to her husband after she finally laid his body to rest.

The revelation comes just days after his grieving wife Paige posted an emotional tribute to her husband after she finally laid his body to rest on Sunday. 

The mother-of-two posted an Instagram Story in which she is pictured smiling alongside her husband as he plays guitar.

‘Laying you to rest yesterday was the hardest thing I have and will ever do in my entire life,’ Paige wrote. ‘Missing you so much, my baby, love you forever.’ 

Paige also posted a photo of a shoreline with the words, ‘Not a second goes by where I’m not thinking of you, my baby, right by your favourite place in the world.

‘I know you’re looking over us forever.’  

More to come. 

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