Referral to the coroner is standard practice for deaths in custody, Paki said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with the man\u2019s family and those who were close to him during this difficult time.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther men and staff are being provided with support, including access to chaplains and cultural support where requested.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Corrections Inspectorate will also carry out an independent investigation.<\/p>\n
Last month, Corrections custodial services commissioner Leigh Marsh said staff found to be negligent would be \u201cheld to account\u201d<\/a> after the death in custody of Rob Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n The Whang\u0101rei man was allegedly beaten to death by his cellmate on June 27 last year.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are currently no employment investigations underway. However, this could be subject to change pending any further information we receive from the ongoing reviews and subsequent coronial inquests.\u201d<\/p>\n His family have requested further information on the risk assessments that determined he would be kept in a shared cell, but Marsh said investigations needed to conclude before that was released.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not denying the family answers. We have agreed and promised that we will share those as soon as we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n Fitpatrick\u2019s death is one of a series of suspected homicides in double bunk cells at Mount Eden Corrections Facility.<\/p>\n Andrew Chan Chui<\/a> was killed by his cellmate in September 2024, while Johnathan Peter Trubuhovich<\/a> died in hospital at the end of last year after being critically assaulted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referral to the coroner is standard practice for deaths in custody, Paki said. \u201cOur thoughts are with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[60237,95,1975,51,12629,11928,6179,7126,8142,78,5158,10048,111,43,139,69,675,8442],"class_list":["post-395183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alerted","tag-and","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-coroner","tag-custody","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-eden","tag-in","tag-man","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395183","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=395183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}