{"id":324334,"date":"2025-12-03T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324334\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:52:12","slug":"shannon-norgate-child-sex-offender-dies-in-alleged-jail-assault-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324334\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Norgate: Child sex offender dies in alleged jail assault in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A convicted child sex offender has died in hospital after an alleged altercation involving two fellow inmates at a Queensland correctional facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Shannon Norgate, aged 28, was discovered unresponsive at Maryborough Correctional Centre on November 26 and later taken to Hervey Bay Hospital, where he passed away on December 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Queensland Police and Corrective Services confirmed the details in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe Queensland Police Service is investigating the death of a prisoner from Maryborough Correctional Centre,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe prisoner died at Hervey Bay Hospital on December 1 following an alleged incident in custody with two other prisoners on November 26.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cInformation indicates around 9am on Wednesday, November 26, a 28-year-old person was located unresponsive following a suspected altercation with two other prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/675d09c8171a63f27c454d3bc0c27578f764ed3c.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Daniel Norgate died in hospital late on Monday following an incident with two other prisoners at the Maryborough Correctional Centre on November 26.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Shannon Daniel Norgate died in hospital late on Monday following an incident with two other prisoners at the Maryborough Correctional Centre on November 26. Credit: Shannon Norgate\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">No staff were harmed during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Norgate received a conviction in March 2020 on five child sex charges, among them the 2019 assault on two boys in a Gladstone school bathroom while posing as a security guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He was wearing a shirt that had \u201csecurity\u201d written on it and led a four-year-old boy by the hand and abused him, with a five-year-old witnessing the act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Gladstone District Court imposed a four-year term, suspended after he served around 14 months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In 2023, authorities caught him grooming a 12-year-old boy, leading to a two-year sentence despite the judge labelling him \u201ca true predator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Queensland Police Service continues probing his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Young people seeking support can phone beyondblue on 1300 22 4636 or go to headspace.org.au.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">If you or someone you know needs help, contact 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), or Lifeline on 13 11 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted child sex offender has died in hospital after an alleged altercation involving two fellow inmates at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,701,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-324334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-queensland","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}