{"id":799531,"date":"2026-07-14T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:48:11","slug":"morwell-man-charged-with-murder-after-body-found-with-significant-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799531\/","title":{"rendered":"Morwell man charged with murder after body found with significant injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder after a body was discovered with significant injuries in Victoria\u2019s Gippsland region over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a property on Langford St at Morwell, about 155km southeast of Melbourne, just before 4pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Peter Slade, 58, was found inside the property with significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege he died after being assaulted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Slade\u2019s family paid tribute to him on social media, saying he \u201chad a heart of gold\u201d and \u201ca laugh that could be heard for miles\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received the heart shattering news that you were taken away from us, it should have never happened and we hope justice gets served to the person who did this,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were always there to give us a laugh from when we were kids and all the way into our adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you would drive us absolutely insane with your shenanigans but now we look back at them and realise how much laughter those shenanigans brought us. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world and Morwell won\u2019t be the same without you, you will be forever in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrested another Morwell man at Traralgon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old was interviewed by police, and has since been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice believe the parties involved were known to each other,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a body was discovered with significant injuries in Victoria\u2019s Gippsland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,187436],"class_list":["post-799531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-newswire-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799531","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=799531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}