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Shannai Reid fined an extra $6k over CCTV, social media images of Broome quarantine breaches

Reid left hotel quarantine shortly after checking in and spent several days in the community. (Facebook)

A New South Wales woman has been fined a further $6,000 after it was found she shared photos of herself breaching hotel quarantine in Broome.

Shannai Reid, 22, was instructed to isolate when she arrived in Broome from Queensland, via Darwin, in August.

She was fined $2,500 after she was found to have checked out of the Roebuck Hotel two days after she arrived and spent several days in the Broome community.

Reid has since travelled back to NSW, but she was called before the Broome Magistrates Court on Monday on four new charges of failing to comply with a direction.

Police said the charges were laid after CCTV footage from the Roebuck Hotel emerged, as well as images Reid herself posted to social media.

Eight minutes in isolation

The court heard cameras from the Roebuck Hotel captured the moment Reid left her hotel room eight minutes after she had checked in for her isolation period and proceeded to chat to workers.

The CCTV footage showed Reid leaving the Roebuck Hotel carpark and entering the Red Cross second-hand store on Carnarvon Street, where she bought a white shirt.

Reid posted a photo of herself in the shirt with the caption, "Look what I found at the op-shop".

Three days later, Reid again posted a photo of herself breaching the public health direction, this time at Town Beach in the Broome centre.

At the time of Reid's quarantine breaches, Queensland was in the midst of a hard lockdown due to an outbreak in cases.

Reid has now been fined a total of $8,500 over her trip, but may be able to avoid paying the latest penalty. (ABC Kimberley: Tom Forrest)

Another $6,000 for 'vanity'

Reid failed to attend court on Monday as she had since returned home to NSW, so her conviction was dealt with in her absence.

Magistrate Stephen Sharratt said he would not jail Reid due to the Supreme Court often overturning similar cases, and would instead impose another fine.

"She exposed people at risk of infection by going to an op-shop, by going to the bar, by going to the beach, knowing she should be self isolating," he said.

He fined Reid $6,000, bringing her total fines up to $8,500, but said because she lived in NSW she may avoid the penalty.

"She might not have to pay it unless she comes back to Western Australia," Magistrate Sharratt said.

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