{"id":14515,"date":"2025-08-04T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14515"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:41:14","slug":"former-top-cop-jevon-mcskimming-faces-charges-of-possessing-child-sexual-exploitation-bestiality-material-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14515","title":{"rendered":"Mt Eden prisoner killed was 46-year-old Robert Norman Fitzpatrick from Whang\u0101rei"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Mt Eden prisoner who was killed<\/a>\u00a0just over a month ago has been named as Robert Norman Fitzpatrick of Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick, 46, died at the corrections facility after an ‘incident’ at the prison on 27 June.<\/p>\n

A 32-year-old man has been arrested and charged with the murder.<\/p>\n

RNZ earlier revealed that both men, who were in a double-bunked cell, were known to mental health services.<\/p>\n

The victim had recently been in a mental health unit in Whang\u0101rei as part of a compulsory treatment order and was in custody after breaching bail, and the murder-accused had a history with mental health services.<\/p>\n

His father told RNZ he was jailed in relation to breaching the conditions of a restraining order. He was eventually released and spent two weeks in a mental health facility in Whang\u0101rei before he was granted electronically-monitored bail to an apartment.<\/p>\n

He said that while at the mental health facility his son’s medication was changed and he was “making good progress”.<\/p>\n

However, he breached his conditions again and was arrested, spending three days in Northland Region Corrections Facility before being moved to Mt Eden.<\/p>\n

The victim’s father had been told that the alleged killer had a history with mental health services. He wants to know why the two men were placed in the same cell.<\/p>\n

“It was a complete failure of the duty of care to my son.”<\/p>\n

He said growing up his son was a “good sportsman”, but struggled holding down a job as he got older due to his mental health.<\/p>\n

“But we were hoping that with the new treatment he had, that he might improve there. It was just his mental health which held him back.”<\/p>\n

He believed his son’s mental health problems were “treatable”.<\/p>\n

The killing came nine months after\u00a0Andrew Chan Chui died at the prison.<\/a>\u00a0A 23-year-old inmate, who shared a double-bunk cell with Chan Chui, has been\u00a0charged with murdering him<\/a><\/p>\n

~ VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Mt Eden prisoner who was killed\u00a0just over a month ago has been named as Robert Norman Fitzpatrick of Whang\u0101rei. Fitzpatrick, 46, died at the corrections facility after an ‘incident’ at the prison on 27 June. A 32-year-old man has been arrested and charged with the murder. RNZ earlier revealed that both men, who were in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14520,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions\/14520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}