Prison yard argument probed amid investigation into Aymen Terkmani’s stabbing death in jail

Jailed killer Aymen Terkmani may have been stabbed to death in his prison cell just hours after an altercation with other inmates.

A jailed killer may have been stabbed to death in his prison cell just hours after an altercation with other inmates.

Aymen Terkmani stumbled out of his Lithgow Prison cell about 2.45pm last Wednesday, bloodied and suffering a stab wound to his chest, before collapsing on the concrete floor.

Terkmani – who was serving a minimum 33-year sentence for the sexual assault and murder of a teenage boy in 2015 – was treated by Corrective Services staff and then flown to hospital by helicopter, but died on the way.

A major homicide investigation is now underway with one line of inquiry surrounding a prison yard argument Terkmani apparently had in the hours before he died on September 25.

Aymen Terkmani, who was serving a jail sentence for the 2015 murder of teenager Mahmoud Hrouk, was stabbed to death in jail last week.

Mahmoud Hrouk, 16, was sexual assaulted and then beaten to death at East Fairfield on May 16, 2015.

It is understood that some time later, CCTV captures several men going into Terkmani’s cell – where there are no cameras – before they leave and he emerges wounded.

“There’s CCTV in some cells, but not all,” a correctives source said.

“Lithgow is a sentence jail, where most people go to just serve their time, and so there’s not the conflict you can see at other jails, so it’s very unusual.”

Alleged murders within prison walls have became increasingly rare, with Termani’s only the second this year.

In March this year, an inmate at Parklea Prison was allegedly found beaten to death in his cell.

Lithgow Correctional Centre. Source: Supplied.

Terkmani leaves the Supreme Court in Sydney in 2017 after being found guilty. Picture: AAP Image/Brendan Esposito

Kien Vinh Vuong, 48, was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell on Sunday, March 17, 2024.

His cellmate Lucas Batey, who had been in custody for just five days, was charged with his murder.

He remains before the NSW Local Court and is yet to enter a plea to the murder charge.

Terkmani was jailed for a minimum of 33 years for the horror murder of Mahmoud Hrouk in 2015, in which he lured his victim to a vacant home in Sydney’s west and sexually assaulted him, before bashing him to death.

Mahmoud Hrouk's mother Maha Dunia (centre) speaks to the media outside the NSW Supreme Court. Picture: AAP Image/Ben Rushton

The 16-year-old died due to what Justice Lucy McCallum told the NSW District Court during Terkmani’s sentencing was “unthinkable violence” the equivalent of someone in an “ice-fuelled rage”, although the killer insisted he had not taken the drug.

“The offender subjected the victim to the most brutal and horrific attack, inflicting injuries too numerous to list and too gruesome to describe,” Justice McCallum said at the time.

Despite the shocking nature of Hrouk’s death, Terkamninwas not sentenced to life in jail because he was only 21 years old at the time.