{"id":612512,"date":"2026-09-26T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612512\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:22:17","slug":"braydon-hepworth-missing-from-christchurch-police-send-urgent-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612512\/","title":{"rendered":"Braydon Hepworth missing from Christchurch: Police send urgent appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790436137_784_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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\">The last confirmed sighting of Braydon Hepworth was at a service station in Linwood on September 3. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are urgently seeking help from the public to find a 21-year-old missing from Christchurch since early September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Braydon Hepworth was last seen on September 3 at a service station in the Linwood area of the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said they have \u201cmade extensive inquiries to locate Braydon, however,<br \/>\n         these have been unsuccessful to date\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police have issued a renewed appeal to find missing 21-year-old Braydon Hepworth. Photo \/ NZ Police\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police have issued a renewed appeal to find missing 21-year-old Braydon Hepworth. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice and Braydon\u2019s family have serious concerns for his wellbeing, as this is extremely out of character for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62507,6375,301658,4487,2245,1866,71,5838,229621,6501,111,43,139,69,675,3109,40249,14775,8037,7811,25444,31092],"class_list":["post-612512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-21yearold","tag-appeal","tag-braydon","tag-christchurch","tag-early","tag-find","tag-from","tag-help","tag-hepworth","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-public","tag-seeking","tag-send","tag-september","tag-since","tag-urgent","tag-urgently"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612512","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=612512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}