{"id":185479,"date":"2025-12-15T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:24:09","slug":"mt-eden-prison-death-man-charged-with-manslaughter-over-inmate-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185479\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Eden prison death: Man charged with manslaughter over inmate assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for Trubuhovich\u2019s family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/family-of-mt-eden-prisoner-johnathan-trubuhovich-allegedly-killed-by-another-prisoner-demand-answers\/B4Z5ZDPW7NDW3OW3HDEP6DW4WA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/family-of-mt-eden-prisoner-johnathan-trubuhovich-allegedly-killed-by-another-prisoner-demand-answers\/B4Z5ZDPW7NDW3OW3HDEP6DW4WA\/\">told NZME last week they were devastated by his death<\/a> and wanted answers from officials about how it could have occurred.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Johnathan Trubuhovich's death is the third suspected homicide in double-bunk cells at Mt Eden. Photo \/ Steven McNicholl\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Johnathan Trubuhovich&#8217;s death is the third suspected homicide in double-bunk cells at Mt Eden. Photo \/ Steven McNicholl<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe thought he was safe,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are not blaming; we just want to know what happened. We don\u2019t want to see this happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Trubuhovich was set for sentencing on December 15, with the family hoping for him to receive a non-custodial sentence so he could be released before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Trubuhovich\u2019s death has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/mt-eden-prison-homicide-probe-after-inmate-dies-following-cell-assault\/NPLZYKFEVRG5DMWESHWTYQQOTY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/mt-eden-prison-homicide-probe-after-inmate-dies-following-cell-assault\/NPLZYKFEVRG5DMWESHWTYQQOTY\/\">triggered the third homicide investigation<\/a> involving inmates in double-bunk cells at Mt Eden prison since September last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Corrections is in the midst of reviewing a risk assessment tool that is used to decide whether prisoners should be residing in a cell with one another, after the two previous deaths. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Trubuhovich\u2019s family told NZME last week they were devastated by his death and wanted answers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,17704,32034,1558,112806,13239,20388,634,8142,15453,44161,5158,15035,10048,111,43,139,69,1523,8442,102],"class_list":["post-185479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allegedly","tag-assault","tag-assaulted","tag-been","tag-cellmate","tag-charged","tag-connection","tag-death","tag-eden","tag-elderly","tag-inmate","tag-man","tag-manslaughter","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-prison","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185479","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=185479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}