{"id":622148,"date":"2026-10-06T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622148\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:46:12","slug":"search-continues-for-missing-christchurch-man-braydon-hepworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622148\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for missing Christchurch man Braydon Hepworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for missing Christchurch man Braydon Hepworth is continuing after police completed an examination at the property believed to be his last known address. <\/p>\n<p>Hepworth, 21, was last seen on England St in Linwood on September 14 and has not been seen or heard from since. <\/p>\n<p>Police previously said they were &#8220;very concerned&#8221; for Hepworth after extensive inquiries failed to locate him. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/02\/police-operation-linked-to-search-for-missing-christchurch-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scene examination was carried out<\/a> at a Linwood property believed to be his last known address. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hepworth-was-last-seen-on-england-st-in-linwood-on-september-IIJXZP4J4FCZLNCHC5OYY4AHEE.jpg\" alt=\"Hepworth was last seen on England St in Linwood on September 14\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Hepworth was last seen on England St in Linwood on September 14 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Karen Simmons said today the examination had now been completed, but the wider investigation was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The operation to understand the circumstances surrounding his disappearance remains ongoing,&#8221; Simmons said. <\/p>\n<p>Police were continuing to appeal for anyone with information about Hepworth&#8217;s whereabouts to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including the Strava risk to our defence force, and protests in France cost a teenager his hand. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for missing Christchurch man Braydon Hepworth is continuing after police completed an examination at the property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-622148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/622148","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=622148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}