{"id":465477,"date":"2026-03-09T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465477\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:39:09","slug":"man-named-and-charged-with-murder-of-oxfordshire-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465477\/","title":{"rendered":"Man NAMED and charged with murder of Oxfordshire woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The body of a woman was discovered off Phyllis Court Drive in Henley at around 7.50am on Friday (March 6).\n<\/p>\n

\n Police tape was wrapped around the pavilion at Phyllis Court Club as police shut off the towpath opposite the club and asked rowers not to pass.\n<\/p>\n

\n A 44-year-old man from Henley was arrested on suspicion of murder, and the force warned there would be an increased police presence in the area.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Thames Valley Police has now named the suspect as Nelio Gouveia of Phyllis Court Drive, and he has been charged with one count of murder.\n<\/p>\n

\n The cause of the victim’s death has been recorded as drowning as per a post-mortem which was carried out on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n

\n A statement from the force tonight (Sunday, March 8) said: “Thames Valley Police has been continuing its murder investigation in Henley.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The woman\u2019s next of kin have been informed, and they are being supported by specially trained officers. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.\n<\/p>\n

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\n “A post-mortem has today (March 8) been conducted with the cause of death being recorded as drowning.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Formal identification of the victim has not yet taken place as such we are not in a position to release the name of the deceased woman.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We have liaised with the Crown Prosecution Service, and this evening (8\/3), they have authorised a charge in relation to this incident.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Gouveia has been remanded in custody and will appear at High Wycombe Magistrates court on Monday (March 9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a woman was discovered off Phyllis Court Drive in Henley at around 7.50am on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}