{"id":358458,"date":"2026-04-01T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:59:10","slug":"body-found-in-central-otago-lake-during-search-for-missing-french-national-antoine-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358458\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in central Otago lake during search for missing French national Antoine Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JR3KF6_ANTOINE_RICHARD_MISSING_POLICE_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Police are continuing their search for Antoine Richard, who has been reported missing from Cromwell.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAntoine Richard, 21, went missing from Cromwell.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>A body has been found in a central Otago lake during the search for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/591214\/family-devastated-with-worry-over-french-man-antoine-richard-who-s-missing-in-central-otago\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing French national Antoine Richard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richard, 21, was last seen on 21 March, about 11.45pm at the Victoria Arms Hotel on the corner of Achil St and Melmore Terrace in Cromwell.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said a body had been found at Cromwell&#8217;s Lake Dunstan by a member of the public just after 2.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While no formal identification had been completed, the spokesperson said it was believed to be Richard.<\/p>\n<p>The death would be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community support and search efforts have been extremely appreciated. Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/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":"Antoine Richard, 21, went missing from Cromwell. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ Police A body has been found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350545,"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-358458","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\/358458","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=358458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}