A Bali Nine member arrested in Sydney only a few weeks after he returned to Australia, his positions dismissed after he was involved in a joy trip with a member of the infamous group two decades ago.
Matthew Norman, 38, declared himself guilty on Tuesday for his role in a 2005 car theft and a police persecution that happened only weeks before being arrested and imprisoned for his participation in a failed operation of drug smuggling in Indonesia.
In January, Norman gave himself to Waverley Police Station, where he was arrested after he was the passenger in a car stolen by Renae Lawrence in Enfield on March 16, 2005.
Norman, with a white shirt and jeans, sat at the back of the Waverley Local Court on Tuesday when his lawyer declared himself guilty of a position of being taken in a transport taken without consent.
The Court was told that Norman was seen by the road patrol that were with a white laser Ford at a service station before the car leads to the police in a persecution.
Lawrence was driving at that time and could not stop despite the fact that the police activated their lights and sirens, the court was told on Tuesday.
Police tried unsuccessfully to stop the car without success, deploying tire peaks and in a third attempt he managed to stop the search for Moonee Moonee.
Both Lawrence and Norman ran from the car to a thicket, but were arrested, and Norman made full admissions at the Gosford police station.
He did not appear at the Gosford Local Court after his arrest.
“And, of course, the Australian public knows why it did not appear,” said Judge Michael Barko to the Court on Tuesday.
He told the court at that time Lawrence told the Police that he refused to stop because he was afraid of the consequences.
And Norman admitted to having been present when Lawrence stole the car.
Barko said he did not take into account Norman’s imprisonment in Indonesia.
He said that it made no sense to impose a penalty and that Norman had come before him in 2009, he would have released him in a link.
Barko dismissed the position without more penalty.
Norman did not speak when he left the court on Tuesday morning.
Lawrence was fined $ 1000 in 2019 and put in an order of community corrections after he declared himself guilty of a series of traffic crimes.
The eight men and a woman who invented the Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 for trying to smile 8.7 kg of heroin to Australia.
Norman was only 18 years old when he tried to smuggle 334g.
During his almost two decades within Kerobokan’s prison in Bali, he avoided the death penalty.
He was among the remaining five members of Bali Nine who returned to Australia in December.
It is understood that Norman moved to a mansion in front of the sea in Torquay in southwest Victoria.
The four two -story bedroom house is valued at more than $ 4 million and is located on the popular beach of the cozy corner in Torquay, about 27 km south of Geelong.
