{"id":643937,"date":"2026-10-28T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643937\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:32:14","slug":"manslaughter-charge-laid-over-death-of-21-year-old-christchurch-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643937\/","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter charge laid over death of 21-year-old Christchurch dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/copy-of-braydon-crop-webp.webp\" width=\"479\" height=\"656\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/copy-of-braydon-crop-webp.webp\" width=\"479\" height=\"656\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Braydon Hepworth. Photo: NZ Police <\/p>\n<p>Police have charged a man with the manslaughter of 21-year-old Christchurch father Braydon Hepworth.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old Christchurch man was arrested in early October and was charged with concealing Hepworth\u2019s body and making a false statement.<\/p>\n<p>He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court tomorrow,\u00a0Detective Inspector Scott Anderson\u00a0said on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He has been granted interim name suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/canterbury\/christchurch\/second-man-charged-over-death-of-21-year-old-christchurch-dad-he95x667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged a 34-year-old Christchurch man<\/a> in relation to the concealment of Hepworth\u2019s body, which\u00a0was found buried under a shed at a Hereford St residential property on October 8.<\/p>\n<p>The last confirmed sighting of Hepworth alive was on September 3 at the Linwood Z Energy service station.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Hepworth&#8217;s disappearance remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braydon Hepworth. Photo: NZ Police Police have charged a man with the manslaughter of 21-year-old Christchurch father Braydon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-643937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643937","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=643937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}