{"id":126313,"date":"2025-09-07T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:09:12","slug":"melbourne-newsman-charged-with-murder-after-body-found-on-driveway-in-ivanhoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126313\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne news:Man charged with murder after body found on driveway in Ivanhoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after a man&#8217;s body was discovered in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of his death is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/acd762d9-8415-472e-99d8-82dbfa6c4d93.png\"   alt=\"Police at Ivanhoe home after body found in driveway\"\/>A 26-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Ivanhoe. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have since charged a 26-year-old man following a pursuit in Pakenham early today.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p>The charged man was expected to appear before Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court today.<\/p>\n<p>A second man, aged 25, was also arrested following the pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the two men had been driving a stolen car on Power Road in Doveton just before 2am today.<\/p>\n<p>The car allegedly evaded officers and drove through Officer before being dumped on Darwin Way in Pakenham, where the offenders fled on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were arrested\ufeff shortly after on Botanic Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a man&#8217;s body was discovered in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-126313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}