{"id":61683,"date":"2025-10-06T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61683\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:30:09","slug":"police-get-positive-information-on-man-found-dead-in-christchurchs-heathcote-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61683\/","title":{"rendered":"Police get \u2018positive information\u2019 on man found dead in Christchurch\u2019s Heathcote Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PolicePolice staff search Duncan Park in Heathcote Valley on September 22.<\/p>\n

It said the investigation had been examining all avenues to identify the deceased man, including whether he was a visitor to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice cars near the entrance to Duncan Park in Heathcote Valley on September 22.<\/p>\n

On September 25, Detective Senior Sergeant Karen Simmons said police had sought global assistance through the International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have supplied biometric data such as fingerprints, photos and DNA profiles to Interpol to be checked against records in other countries,\u201d Simmons said at the time. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe man is thought to be in his 30s or 40s, with a distinctive birthmark on his left forearm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen located, he was wearing a black, long-sleeve woollen jersey, black trousers and grey tramping boots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, police had released photographs of items the mystery man was carrying with him when he was discovered. <\/p>\n

The items include grey, black, and yellow gloves, a Powerade-branded drawstring bag and a bike pump, found inside a foreign-branded Sweed black backpack.<\/p>\n

The Herald looked further into the items the man was carrying and found a similar Sweed-branded backpack on the South Korean fashion website GVG.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe backpack found with the man. Photo \/ Canterbury Police<\/p>\n

Although the bag could be shipped to New Zealand from GVG, there was no retail presence of stores in NZ selling the branded backpack.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe logo on the backpack that was found with the man. Photo \/ Canterbury Police<\/p>\n

A black bike pump was also one of the items found, branded as a Blackburn \u2018Shorty Comp Mountain Pump\u2019.<\/p>\n

The specific bike pump was not currently listed on the Blackburn website; however, a similar Blackburn bike pump could be purchased from Torpedo7 for $27.99.<\/p>\n

A Powerade-branded drawstring bag was also with the man and was made by NZ company AMS.<\/p>\n

The Powerade brand is owned by the globally renowned Coca-Cola Company and sold in more than 80 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police staff search Duncan Park in Heathcote Valley on September 22. It said the investigation had been examining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24752,33737,50545,690,1874,1333,305,42,33493,32563,78,15415,1362,5158,130,43,90,675,2989,6046,131,40,38,41,39,2217,4518],"class_list":["post-61683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ago","tag-breakthrough","tag-christchurchs","tag-dead","tag-found","tag-get","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-heathcote","tag-identifying","tag-in","tag-information","tag-made","tag-man","tag-more","tag-news","tag-on","tag-police","tag-positive","tag-potential","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-valley","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61683","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=61683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}