Wayne Wilmot: Serial sex offender jailed over rape and murder of Janine Balding appeals latest prison sentence for accessing porn
EXCLUSIVE
A serial rapist who was caught watching extreme pornography in violation of the terms of his release has complained His latest prison sentence of 18 months is too harsh a sentence.
Wayne Wilmot was involved in the kidnap, rape and murder of bank clerk Janine Balding in September 1988 and spent most of his adult life behind bars.
The 51-year-old was released from prison last month and placed on an interim supervision order, with conditions including a restriction on internet use.
Public outrage arose when it became known that Wilmot would receive financial support through the taxpayer. When he was released from prison he received benefits from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
This support consisted of a total of 24 hours of assistance per week to improve his ‘daily life’ and increase his ‘social, economic and community participation’.
Two weeks after his release, Wilmot was charged with seeking and viewing explicit child abuse material, in violation of his temporary supervision order.
Wilmot appeared via audio-visual link at Waverley Crown Court on Tuesday where he pleaded guilty to breaching the order and was sentenced.
The court was told that Wilmot had breached internet usage conditions by searching for violent pornography, including “extreme” material featuring underage females.
A serial rapist who was caught watching extreme pornography in breach of his parole says his latest 18-month prison sentence is too long. Wayne Wilmot is pictured after his arrest for the rape and murder of Janine Balding in September 1988
According to documents filed with the court, Wilmot sought group sex material with 16 men and one woman and repeatedly requested violent and extreme pornography involving minors.
His lawyer Dev Bhutani asked Judge Jacqueline Milledge to consider a sentence of around six months, but she imposed a fixed 18-month prison sentence.
“He has been in prison almost continuously since he was 15,” Mr Bhutani said.
Mrs. Milledge: ‘[From] “What I’ve read about his history is where he belongs.”
Later that day, Wilmot filed an appeal against the sentence. The case will be heard in the district court.
Mr Bhutani argued that a “short, stiff prison sentence” would deter his client from breaching the supervision order again.
Ms Milledge noted that Wilmot had attempted to access ‘very hardcore porn sites… featuring sexual gang activity’ by searching for terms such as ‘very very extreme hard fuck porn videos’.
“This is very concerning,” she said. “It’s not like he just went on a dating site or anything.”
Wayne Wilmot was 15 when he and a group of four others, aged 14, 15, 16 and 22, travelled to Sutherland train station in Sydney’s south and abducted Janine Balding (above) at knifepoint
Police Prosecutor Nicole McMahon said the breach was “extremely serious” given the violent nature of the material and Wilmot’s history of “extreme violence and sexual abuse.”
She noted that he had shown no remorse for his actions and argued that the “real and extremely high risk” that Wilmot would re-offend “could not in any way be reduced”.
Sergeant McMahon urged that the serial rapist be given a two-year prison sentence for the offence.
“The longer Mr. Wilmot is incarcerated, the longer the community as a whole will be protected,” McMahon said. “It would be the ultimate deterrent.”
Ms Milledge agreed that Wilmot’s lengthy criminal record was “quite disturbing, if not frightening”.
Earlier this year, Supreme Court Justice Helen Wilson described Wilmot as having a “disturbing history of sexual abuse, which he continues to deny or minimise”.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, has been charged with violating his supervision order by viewing pornographic material
Wilmot was 15 when he and a group of four others, aged 14, 15, 16 and 22, travelled to Sutherland train station in Sydney’s south and abducted Ms Balding at knifepoint.
The 20-year-old was forced into a car driven by Wilmot and raped in the backseat before being driven to a remote area of western Sydney where she was sexually assaulted again.
Wilmot and the other 15-year-old girl, a mentally handicapped girl, took no active part when Mrs. Balding was dragged to a dam and drowned.
Sentencing the group, Judge Peter Newman accepted that Wilmot “knew nothing of their decision to subsequently kill her” and was not involved in the murder.
He found that Wilmot had not raped Mrs Balding, but was guilty because of his involvement in the joint criminal enterprise.
Wilmot was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for a series of offences, including sexual intercourse without consent, arrest with intent to obtain profit and theft in company.
He was released on probation in October 1996, but subsequently committed violent and sexual attacks on women.
Wilmot is due to appear in Downing Centre Court on September 18.