{"id":267178,"date":"2026-02-04T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:50:10","slug":"man-charged-with-murdering-south-otago-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267178\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murdering South Otago vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jillian_clark_cropped.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Dr Jillian Clark. Photo: supplied \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Jillian Clark. Photo: supplied <\/p>\n<p>A man is facing a murder charge after a veterinarian was found dead at her South Otago home last month.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Adams Flats Rd in Crichton, in the Clutha District, about 6.10pm on January 23.<\/p>\n<p>Milton vet Dr Jillian Clark was found dead at her rural home.<\/p>\n<p>A man was also found in a critical condition at the property and flown to Dunedin Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement,\u00a0Detective Senior Sergeant Nik Leigh said a man has been charged\u00a0with murder following a bedside hearing today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand this is a distressing event for the small community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police would like to reassure residents that officers are not searching for any other people in relation to the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More in tomorrow&#8217;s ODT and ODT Online<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Jillian Clark. Photo: supplied A man is facing a murder charge after a veterinarian was found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-267178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267178","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=267178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}