{"id":11110,"date":"2024-08-23T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2024-08-23T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:31:21","slug":"alleged-killer-of-yanfei-bao-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11110","title":{"rendered":"Alleged killer of Yanfei Bao appears in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man charged with the murder of Yanfei Bao has appeared in court for the first time since her remains were found last month.<\/p>\n

Chinese national Tingjun Cao appeared for a callover in the High Court at Christchurch on Friday, via audio-visual link.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old was intially charged with Bao’s kidnapping but was later charged with murder.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to the killing and will face trial on 21 October.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the court heard that “all matters remained on track” for his scheduled trial date.<\/p>\n

The murder accused, who was wearing a green top, glasses and had visibly longer hair, did not have an interpreter in court.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Pip Currie said some Crown witnesses at the trial would require an interpreter.<\/p>\n

Police investigating Bao’s disappearance confirmed the discovery of remains in an area of private farmland in the Greenpark area south of Christchurch on 30 July.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves said on the day she was “confident” the remains – that were exhumed from a shallow grave along a tree line – belonged to the missing real estate agent.<\/p>\n

Bao’s remains\u00a0were accepted by the Coroner<\/a>\u00a0three days later.<\/p>\n

“This news brings to a close a key aspect of our investigation and Yanfei will now be returned to her family,” Reeves said.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old real estate agent went missing from the Christchurch suburb of Hornby in July 2023.<\/p>\n

The scene examination at the property Bao’s remains were found at has been completed.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man charged with the murder of Yanfei Bao has appeared in court for the first time since her remains were found last month. Chinese national Tingjun Cao appeared for a callover in the High Court at Christchurch on Friday, via audio-visual link. The 53-year-old was intially charged with Bao’s kidnapping but was later charged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}