{"id":152446,"date":"2025-11-25T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152446\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:24:08","slug":"man-charged-after-21yo-died-while-hunting-on-stewart-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152446\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after 21yo died while hunting on Stewart Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4K4KLP4_jock_davies_PNG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"853\" alt=\"Jock Davies\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nJock Grant Davies.<br \/>\nPhoto: Facebook\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged five months after 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/566340\/jock-davies-named-as-man-who-died-while-hunting-on-stewart-island\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jock Grant Davies died while hunting<\/a> on Stewart Island.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old from Ashburton has been charged with careless use of a firearm causing death.<\/p>\n<p>Davies died near Lords River on 5 July, with police notified about midday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a search and rescue team was deployed to the island via helicopter, where he was found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jock Grant Davies. Photo: Facebook A man has been charged five months after 21-year-old Jock Grant Davies died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-152446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152446","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=152446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}