{"id":442162,"date":"2026-05-23T22:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:10:12","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-death-in-dunedin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442162\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after death in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAJ_RNZD0271_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with murder after a person&#8217;s death in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Shona Low said at the time emergency services were called to a Somerville St home in Andersons Bay just before 6pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arrival a person was located deceased. One person was taken into custody at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, Detective Inspector Shona Low said that person had been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old was due to appear in the Dunedin District Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were not seeking anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>A scene examination would take place on Saturday, with cordons still in place.<\/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":"Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER A man has been charged with murder after a person&#8217;s death in Dunedin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-442162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442162","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=442162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}