{"id":447358,"date":"2026-05-27T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:20:11","slug":"police-release-name-of-man-found-dead-at-dunedin-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447358\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release name of man found dead at Dunedin property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police have released the name of the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/23\/man-charged-with-murder-in-relation-to-dunedin-homicide-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was found deceased at a property<\/a> in Dunedin&#8217;s Andersons Bay last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was Douglas Alexander Senior, aged 58, from Andersons Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to the property on Somerville St at about 5.50pm on Friday where he was located deceased.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/police-at-the-scene-on-somerville-street-last-night-Z2R4ROEWQVC5PDIRGUK4VPGUWY.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene on Somerville Street last night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Police at the scene on Somerville Street last night. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A man was then charged with murder in relation to the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 37-year-old has been remanded in custody and is due to appear in Dunedin High Court on June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the name of the man who was found deceased at a property in Dunedin&#8217;s Andersons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-447358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447358","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=447358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}