Murder charge after Nelson hotel death

A 62-year-old tourist has been charged with murder after a woman's body was found at a Nelson hotel this morning.

Police were called to the inner-city Rutherford Hotel hotel shortly before 9am, after the body of a 62-year-old woman was discovered in a room.

Detective said they had identified the woman and were working to contact her next-of-kin, who were overseas.

The victim was known to the man and they were both travelling on foreign passports.

The man has been granted interim name suppression and remanded in police custody until Monday.

 

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