Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Kāpiti Student Breanna Missing Or Murdered?

When Kāpiti Coast woman Jasmin Gray answered a distressed phone call from her mother Susie Mann on a Monday morning in August 2022, she knew something was terribly wrong. Susie’s voice quivered as she explained that Jasmin’s 22-yearold daughter Breanna Muriwai hadn’t made it home from a weekend out with friends.

The nursing student, who was living with her grandmother, wasn’t active on social media or answering her phone. Worse, her waterlogged handbag had been dumped on Susie’s front lawn, covered in sand.

Now, a year on, Breanna is still missing and her bank account remains untouched. While there have been no arrests made in relation to her disappearance, Jasmin believes her precious TikTokloving daughter, who enjoyed nothing more than making other people laugh, was murdered.

“When Mum rang me

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