Suspected of spying by Te Whakatōhea, the German missionary Carl Völkner was killed at Ōpōtiki on 2 March 1865. Accused of murder, for five years Kereopa was sheltered from government forces by Tūhoe deep in the Urewera. In 1871, with government kūpapa forces (tribes loyal to the Crown) harrying the tribe, Tūhoe gave up Kereopa. He was then tried and hanged in Napier.
In 2014 a statutory pardon for Kereopa Te Rau was part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement between the Crown and Ngāti Rangiwewehi.
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