{"id":383608,"date":"2026-04-17T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:56:13","slug":"teenager-in-court-over-elderly-womans-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383608\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager in court over elderly woman&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/burnham_hom_0.png\" width=\"818\" height=\"511\" alt=\"The 19-year-old was charged with murder and two counts of assault after a woman's body was found...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was charged with murder and two counts of assault after a woman&#8217;s body was found at a Burnham home in January. Photo: File image \/ RNZ \/ Nathan Mckinnon<\/p>\n<p>A man charged with\u00a0murdering an elderly woman\u00a0and attacking two family members at a rural Canterbury property has pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/star-news\/star-christchurch\/name-suppression-teen-charged-elderly-womans-murder-rnz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">whose identity remains suppressed<\/a>, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the High Court at Christchurch on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with murder and two counts of assault after a woman&#8217;s body was found at a Burnham home in January.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ understands a relative of the 19-year-old called police after she was allegedly assaulted and had barricaded herself in a room.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that on arrival police tasered the man, before finding the woman&#8217;s body at the property.<\/p>\n<p>The man is next\u00a0due to appear in court in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/crime-and-justice\/592646\/man-charged-with-murdering-elderly-woman-attacking-others-denies-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rnz_banner-new.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19-year-old was charged with murder and two counts of assault after a woman&#8217;s body was found at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-383608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383608","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=383608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}