{"id":176622,"date":"2025-12-10T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176622\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:39:10","slug":"mt-eden-prisoner-johnathan-trubuhovich-dies-after-attack-by-another-inmate-family-demand-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176622\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Eden prisoner Johnathan Trubuhovich dies after attack by another inmate, family demand answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, a spokesperson for Trubuhovich\u2019s family, who asked not to be named, told NZME their loss was still very \u201craw\u201d and they wanted answers. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the truth to come out; this should not happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought he was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said they did not know the full details of what had occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want hearsay or false accusations; we want the truth.<\/p>\n

\"JohnathanJohnathan Peter Trubuhovich died after an alleged assault at Mt Eden Corrections Facility. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not blaming; we just want to know what happened. We don\u2019t want to see this happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trubuhovich was due to be sentenced on assault, shoplifting and disorderly behaviour charges on December 15.<\/p>\n

His family had hoped the sentence would have resulted in a non-custodial sentence, seeing him released before Christmas. <\/p>\n

The spokesperson said he would have been welcome to share the holiday with them. <\/p>\n

They said Trubuhovich\u2019s mental health had deteriorated in the past several years, and they had been working to find him help. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got him out [hopefully] at Christmas, we hoped he would go into intense therapy and follow-up accommodation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trubuhovich\u2019s lawyer James McGilvary told NZME there was no guarantee Trubuhovich would have been out of prison before Christmas. <\/p>\n

It would have been in the hands of the sentencing judge, he said.<\/p>\n

Following his death, which McGilvary described as \u201centirely preventable\u201d<\/a>, Trubuhovich\u2019s court hearing had been postponed to the New Year for a stay of proceedings application. <\/p>\n

Today, Detective Senior Sergeant Friend said in a statement that Corrections had notified police about a serious assault at the prison on November 29.<\/p>\n

Friend said police were investigating, with the results of an autopsy pending.<\/p>\n

Al Williams is an Open Justice reporter for the New Zealand Herald, based in Christchurch. He has worked in daily and community titles in New Zealand and overseas for the last 16 years. Most recently he was editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post, based in Whangamat\u0101. He was previously deputy editor of the Cook Islands News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, a spokesperson for Trubuhovich\u2019s family, who asked not to be named, told NZME their loss was still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,9526,38864,89,9218,3595,18399,4190,33452,6179,7126,8142,2109,64800,44161,113209,2225,9066,10048,111,43,139,69,5270,8442,20937,165,8229,113210,6730],"class_list":["post-176622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-another","tag-answers","tag-attack","tag-before","tag-by","tag-christmas","tag-demand","tag-devastated","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-eden","tag-family","tag-hoped","tag-inmate","tag-johnathan","tag-loss","tag-loved","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-prison","tag-prisoner","tag-their","tag-they","tag-trubuhovich","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}