Arrest after 72-year-old's death

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Police have made an arrest over the death a 72-year-old man who sustained fatal injuries after an altercation at his daughter's home in the Auckland Suburb of St Heliers.

Rodney resident Brian Lindsay Culpan was found dead at his daughter's Maskell St property yesterday.

A post mortem carried out this morning has revealed he died from neck injuries sustained in a fall.

Detective Senior Sergeant Kevin Hooper said police understand Mr Culpan had been in an altercation with a person known to him at the St Heliers property.

A 50-year-old man was arrested and charged with assault last night in relation to the incident and appeared in the Auckland District Court today, he said.

The man has been granted interim name suppression and has been remanded on bail ahead of a reappearance in court on August 2.

Mr Hooper said forensic tests were being carried out as part of an investigation into the circumstances leading up to Mr Culpan's death.

"It is too soon to tell whether any further charges will be laid."

- HERALD ONLINE