{"id":266921,"date":"2026-02-04T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:11:11","slug":"man-dies-in-custody-at-mt-eden-prison-after-court-transport-in-escort-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266921\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in custody at Mt Eden prison after court transport in escort van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Pattinson said the prisoner had been secured in his own cell within the van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere are no indications the death is suspicious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with those impacted by this man\u2019s death. Staff and prisoners are being provided with support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Police have been notified and have contacted the man\u2019s next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll deaths in custody are referred to the Coroner for investigation and determination of cause of death,\u201d Pattinson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn investigation by the independent Corrections Inspectorate will also be carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed they attended a sudden death at Mt Eden Corrections Facility today, and inquiries will be carried out on behalf of the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" 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":"Pattinson said the prisoner had been secured in his own cell within the van. \u201cThere are no indications&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,1975,682,1349,11928,6179,7126,8142,91364,1888,78,5158,10048,111,43,139,69,8442,2437,1961,112,118974,11427,6845],"class_list":["post-266921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-at","tag-being","tag-court","tag-custody","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-eden","tag-escort","tag-first","tag-in","tag-man","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prison","tag-security","tag-this","tag-transport","tag-transported","tag-van","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266921","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=266921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}