{"id":573521,"date":"2026-08-19T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573521\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:02:11","slug":"auckland-man-accused-of-killing-parents-and-attempting-to-kill-brother-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573521\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland man accused of killing parents and attempting to kill brother named"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 41-year-old man accused of murdering two people and attempting to murder a third on Auckland’s North Shore can now be named as Marc Govinden.<\/p>\n

By Felix Walton of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

The dead victims were his parents, while his brother was injured.<\/p>\n

Police found Govinden’s brother, Andrew, injured in Birkdale on 28 July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Govinden was arrested at the scene, and police conducted a welfare check on his parents Raman and Rooksana, who were soon found dead at their Glenfield home.<\/p>\n

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Lingfield Street in Glenfield. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Justice Mathew Downs set out the charges.<\/p>\n

“You are charged with murdering your parents and then attempting to murder your brother,” he told Govinden, who appeared in person at Auckland’s High Court.<\/p>\n

“You will be tried in this court from 2 August next year, I’m setting aside three weeks for your trial.”<\/p>\n

Justice Downs ordered reports on Govinden’s health.<\/p>\n

“Because you are currently unwell I am going to remand you to a hospital or a secure facility rather than a prison,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man accused of murdering two people and attempting to murder a third on Auckland’s North Shore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-573521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573521","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=573521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}