{"id":564324,"date":"2026-08-10T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564324\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:26:09","slug":"body-of-missing-wellington-man-paddy-simon-found-weeks-after-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564324\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing Wellington man Paddy Simon found weeks after disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>10 Aug, 2026 01:14 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Paddy Sowman, also known as Simon, 42, has been found dead after disappearing from a Wellington suburb in late July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of a man who went missing from a Wellington suburb weeks ago has been found, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Paddy Sowman, also known as Simon, was reported missing in late July, with a friend saying he went out the morning of the 25th and was not seen or heard<br \/>\n         from since.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wgWyLpmKXCBS\" style=\"display:none\">The 42-year-old had been staying with the friend in Ngaio when he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wgWyLpmKXCBS\" style=\"display:none\">Police today said they had conducted a search and, with the help of Land Search and Rescue volunteers, found a man\u2019s body on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wgWyLpmKXCBS\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFamily have been notified and formal identification procedures are underway,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 10 Aug, 2026 01:14 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1558,7800,2223,9770,1874,71,305,42,5158,6501,43,1118,87364,675,6037,17294,40,38,41,39,4518,52,2201],"class_list":["post-564324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-been","tag-body","tag-confirmed","tag-disappearance","tag-found","tag-from","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-of","tag-paddy","tag-police","tag-simon","tag-suburb","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weeks","tag-wellington","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564324","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=564324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}