Shannon Daniel Norgate serving six-year jail term pleads guilty to four further offences

The 25-year-old convicted sex offender who has previously sexually assaulted boys while impersonating a security guard has escaped further penalties after pleading guilty.

A convicted sex offender serving a lengthy jail sentence won’t serve anymore time behind bars despite pleading guilty before a Toowoomba court to further offences.

Shannon Daniel Norgate appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court via prison video link from Woodford Correctional Centre on Monday, April 24, to plead guilty to four offences dating back to 2021.

Those offences included contravening an offender prohibition order in May 2021, failing to report as a reportable offender under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act in February 2021, possessing a syringe and needle in May 2021, and obstructing police on May 3, 2021.

Shannon Daniel Norgate

The 25-year-old’s solicitor Ryan McCullough, of MacDonald Law, told the court his client had already served two years in jail and had been ostensibly sentenced to a total six year jail term.

Mr McCullough said these particular charges predated his client’s sentence and had he been sentenced for all matters at the same time it was unlikely he would have received any further penalty.

In 2020, Norgate was convicted of sexually assaulting two boys in Gladstone while impersonating a security guard.

He was released from prison after serving 406 days.

However, he has since been returned to prison a number of times for breaching court orders.

Mr McCullough told the court on Monday that his client had “significant” intellectual issues.

Magistrate Kay Phillipson agreed that it would be unjust to impose further penalty in the circumstances as he had been sentenced to a “significant period of imprisonment” earlier this month.

Ms Phillipson convicted Norgate but ordered no further penalty be imposed.