A 59-year-old man has appeared in the Rotorua District Court this morning charged with murder.
The man has been granted interim name suppression.
The charge relates to a body of a man being found at a house on Te Ngae Rd yesterday afternoon.
Judge Tony Snell also granted interim suppressionof the victim's name and details at the request of the police, who said formal identification was yet to be carried out.
The charged man was represented by Dafydd Malcolm, who said a legal aid application had been made on an urgent basis and the man would be assigned a lawyer.
Malcolm said he asked for interim name suppression on the grounds the man's assigned counsel might see something relevant that would warrant name suppression being granted.
The man was remanded in custody to reappear in the High Court at Rotorua on June 12 at 9am.
Emergency services were called to the property in Owhata about 4.45pm yesterday where a man was found dead.
