Jayden Mamfredos-Nair. Photo: Supplied
A third arrest has been made in the homicide investigation into the disappearance of Jayden Mamfredos-Nair.
Detective Inspector Callum McNeill, of Waitematā CIB, said today police arrested a 20-year-old man on Saturday night.
"We have also charged this man with Jayden's murder," he said.
On Saturday police announced a body had been found at a Dairy Flat property after a search began on Wednesday.
"While we still have to carry out formal identification procedures, from all of our inquiries to date we believe this is Jayden," McNeill said.
Two men, both aged 26, had been charged with the murder of Mamfredos-Nair.
The arrested man is due to appear in the North Shore District Court on Monday at the same time as the two men arrested earlier on Saturday, McNeill said.
He added police were not ruling out further arrests as part of the homicide investigation.
Mamfredos-Nair, then 19, was reported missing in April 2023. He was last seen on Birdwood Road in West Auckland's Rānui, the same month.
McNeill called the recovery of the teenager's body "a devastating ordeal for Jayden's whānau, who are still coming to terms with the loss they have suffered".
"We hope that this brings them some closure, in knowing that their boy can now be returned to them so he can be laid to rest."