Please attribute to Detective Senior Sergeant Callum McNeill, Waitemata Police.
Police are now in a position to release the name of the man who died as the result of an explosion in Henderson on Monday evening.
He was 39-year-old Howard Clinton Miller of Swanson.
The investigation is ongoing and ultimately the matter will be considered by the Coroner, however initial indications are that Mr Miller had gone to a friend’s house to help weld an exhaust onto a car.
There has been speculation on social media that the explosion was a clan lab, however that is not the case.
The matter has been referred to the Coroner.
Police’s thoughts are with Mr Miller’s family at this difficult time.
ENDS
Monique Caddy/NZ Police