Man’s ‘indefinite’ custody

A SERIAL sex offender jailed over the sexual assault of several young school children in a Cairns hostel almost 20 years ago has been placed in “indefinite” custody.

Yarrabah man Gregory David Kynuna, 51, was released into the community under a supervision order in 2014, but breached it by groping a nurse in a Brisbane hospital.

He was sentenced to 12 months jail in June this year, which was to be suspended after four months.

But in a decision handed down by Supreme Court of Queensland Justice David Boddice last week, Kynuna has had the original supervision order rescinded and been detained in custody “for indefinite control, care and treatment.

The Cairns incident in 1987 was his first sexual assault conviction.

He was handed an effective three-year jail sentence over the incident.

He has had other sexual assault convictions in 2004 and 2010, along with the assault of a disability pensioner in 1990.

In Justice Boddice’s decision he said Kynuna suffered from the effects of an acquired brain injury sustained when he was 15.

He said he was assessed by two psychiatrists as part of the decision to revoke the supervision order.

But he elected to rescind the order as Kynuna had not “discharged the onus placed upon him” to comply with it.