{"id":642447,"date":"2026-10-27T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642447\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:22:09","slug":"name-suppression-lapses-for-teen-accused-of-murdering-his-90-year-old-grandmother-at-family-home-outside-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642447\/","title":{"rendered":"Name suppression lapses for teen accused of murdering his 90-year-old grandmother at family home outside Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until today, court orders prevented the names of the accused and three victims from being published.<\/p>\n

But at a hearing in the High Court at Christchurch this morning suppression orders were lifted. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to King\u2019s family home on Burnham School Road just after 3am on January 27 after a report of disorder.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice at the scene in January. Photo \/ Jazlyn Whales<\/p>\n

After arriving at the property, police located the body of Jean Seyb. <\/p>\n

King was arrested soon after. <\/p>\n

Marion Seyb and King\u2019s father, Matthew, are the former owners of Burnham\u2019s Lone Goat Vineyard. <\/p>\n

The couple took over the original Giesen vineyard established over 30 years ago in 2007. <\/p>\n

The business, situated next door to the home where the alleged murder and assault happened, went into liquidation in January 2022.<\/p>\n

Justice Cameron Mander remanded King in custody until his next court appearance in December. <\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and a trial date has been set for 2027.<\/p>\n

A private funeral was held for Seyb, described as \u201cdearly loved wife\u201d of the late Bill. <\/p>\n

She was also a \u201cdearly loved mum and mother-in-law\u201d and \u201ca cherished Gran\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anna Leask is a senior journalist who covers Christchurch issues and national crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2008 and has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years with a particular focus on family and gender-based violence, child abuse, sexual violence and homicides. She writes, hosts and produces the award-winning podcast A Moment In Crime, released monthly on nzherald.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until today, court orders prevented the names of the accused and three victims from being published. But at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86405,1117,51247,1975,8126,13239,4487,15453,2109,32255,2082,14322,293,1345,69480,15360,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,2682,14727,814,3175,13618,5163,4054,119120,102,2248],"class_list":["post-642447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-90yearold","tag-accused","tag-assaulting","tag-at","tag-canterbury","tag-charged","tag-christchurch","tag-elderly","tag-family","tag-familys","tag-for","tag-grandmother","tag-his","tag-home","tag-lapses","tag-murdering","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-others","tag-outside","tag-property","tag-rural","tag-suppression","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-violently","tag-with","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642447","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=642447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}