{"id":98254,"date":"2025-10-24T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98254\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:40:08","slug":"man-in-court-charged-with-murder-of-father-and-son-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/98254\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in court charged with murder of father and son in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a father and son who died in an Auckland house fire.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of 36-year-old Jung Sup Lee, and his 11-year-old son Ha-il Lee were found inside the Bucklands Beach home three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>It became a homicide investigation after police said the fire was deliberately lit with an accelerant.<\/p>\n<p>Police announced on Friday afternoon they had laid two murder charges after the public&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old man, from Sunnyhills in East Auckland, has appeared in Manukau District Court where bail was not sought.<\/p>\n<p>He was helped by a translator, and nodded as he was spoken to.<\/p>\n<p>The accused man was granted interim name suppression by Judge David McNaughton.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, David Hoskin, argued proceedings were at an early stage and there were issues around fair trial rights.<\/p>\n<p>The man will next appear in the High Court in Auckland next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/576878\/bucklands-beach-fire-man-charged-with-murder-of-father-and-son-keeps-name-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a father and son who died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-98254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98254","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=98254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}