Storylines of Shortland Street
Character Date Cause of Death Notes
Dr. Ian Seymour January 1998 Presumed suicide by drowning Nearly five months after going on the run for the attempted murder of Kirsty Knight ( amidst other crimes ) , his car was found abandoned by the sea , and police assumed he 'd committed suicide . The following month it was revealed that Ian was still alive
Alex McKenna November 1998 Sudden illness while in Tibet Alex 's estranged husband Michael and daughter Rachel received news from a Tibetan monastery of Alex 's death . In 2002 Rachel discovered that Alex was alive and well , reports of her death having been exaggerated as part of a callous plot on Alex 's part to spend some time apart from the rest of her family
Lionel Skeggins 12 March 1999 Drowning Shortly after his wedding , Lionel discovered evidence to suggest his wife Mackenzie Choat had tried to murder Oscar Henry , and was washed off a rock whilst trying to escape her . He would be presumed dead for the next 18 years , until the Ferndale Volcanic Eruption , where he ran into Chris Warner at the Hospital , with what appeared to be suffering from amnesia
Dr. Justine Jones 11 September 2008 Car Bombing Justine faked her death to escape Don Lennox and the Whitetails , hired by the dodgy pharmaceutical company Scott Spear to kill her . She fled to Australia but returned to testify at the trial of John Grainger and the dodgy drug company . Now resides in Australia
Sean Mitchell 30 July 2010 Burns sustained from fire Thai thugs faked his death so they could kidnap him without police distractions
Nurse Hawks Logan 24th or 27th November 2017 Prison bombing in Syria While Hawks was working in a prison hospital in Syria , Sass Warner was informed by Foreign Affairs that Hawks was killed with no survivors in the bombing . A few months later however , on the day of Finn and Esther 's wedding , in April 2018 , Sass was later informed that Hawks is actually still alive , but had lost a leg from the explosion
Deaths -- Fake deaths
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