{"id":11571,"date":"2025-09-09T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11571\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:12:06","slug":"christchurch-man-charged-after-95k-llew-summers-sculpture-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11571\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch man charged after $95k Llew Summers\u2019 sculpture destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Depicting a large bird in flight, it was the final major bronze work he made before he died in 2019, aged 72. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, our investigation indicates that the sculpture has been destroyed and much of it sold as scrap metal, with only small pieces being recovered,\u201d Trengrove said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile we are pleased to have apprehended the [alleged] offender, police acknowledge the devastation the residents feel in losing such significant artwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked key community members for their help throughout the investigation, \u201cincluding those from the scrap metal industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The man is due to appear in Christchurch District Court on September 16 on a charge of theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Depicting a large bird in flight, it was the final major bronze work he made before he died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14169,14164,74,1558,1970,13239,4487,14167,14165,5158,1614,111,43,139,69,675,14170,2194,3235,14166,14168,5977,102],"class_list":["post-11571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-14169","tag-95k","tag-after","tag-been","tag-believe","tag-charged","tag-christchurch","tag-destroyed","tag-llew","tag-man","tag-metal","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-scrap","tag-sculpture","tag-sold","tag-summers","tag-theft","tag-which","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}