A man has been charged with manslaughter following the disappearance and death of Braydon Hepworth in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old’s body was found buried in a shed in Linwood, Christchurch, on 8 October after he had gone missing in early September.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Scott Anderson said a 60-year-old man, earlier charged with concealing Hepworth’s body and making a false statement now faced a manslaughter charge.<\/p>\n
The man is in custody and would appear in Christchurch District Court on Thursday. He had interim name suppression.<\/p>\n
Anderson said the investigation into Hepworth’s disappearance remained ongoing.<\/p>\n
“However, as the matter is now before the courts, police are unable to comment further at this time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with manslaughter following the disappearance and death of Braydon Hepworth in Christchurch. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-643991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643991","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=643991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}