"Update - body found in Fairlie, South Canterbury"
Please
attribute to Inspector David Gaskin, Area Commander for
Mid-South Canterbury:
Police are now in the position to
the release the name of the man who was found deceased in
the Opihi Riverbed, near Fairlie, on Tuesday, 1 August.
He
was 45-year-old Michael Andrew Phillips, a local Fairlie
man.
Police is still carrying out the examination of the
scene in the Opihi Riverbed where the body of Mr Phillips
was discovered on Tuesday evening.
Mr Phillips was located
dead next to his vehicle on a track in the river bed at
approximately 10:30pm by a local police officer.
Enquiries
into the circumstance of Mr Phillips' death have been
ongoing since he was found and will continue over the
weekend.
Police's focus is on gathering and piecing
together all available information to be able to build an
accurate picture of the circumstances that led to the
death.
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