Shocking reason why serial rapist and bank teller killer Wayne Wilmot is back behind bars just weeks after he was freed
A serial rapist who was involved in the kidnap, rape and murder of bank worker Janine Balding has been jailed again after watching violent porn.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, was released from prison last month and given a provisional supervision order with conditions including electronic monitoring, drug and alcohol abstinence and limited internet use.
Yet just two weeks after his release, he was arrested and charged with violating his parole by searching for and viewing explicit child abuse material.
On Tuesday Wilmot was transported from his cell to Waverley Magistrates Court to be sentenced. He pleaded guilty to breaching his supervision order.
Wearing a prison-issued green tracksuit, he nodded in agreement as his lawyer Dev Bhutani asked the court to impose the minimum six-month sentence.
Mr Bhutani argued that a “short, stiff prison sentence” would deter his client from breaching the supervision order again.
The court was told Wilmot had breached a court order restricting his internet use by searching for violent pornography, including “extreme” material featuring underage females.
Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge noted that Wilmot attempted to access “very hardcore porn sites … featuring gang sexual activity” by searching for terms such as “very very extreme hard fuck porn videos”.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, has been charged with violating his supervision order by viewing pornographic material
Carol Anne Arrow (18) right and Wayne Wilmot (15) left, at Campbelltown District Court in Sydney, September 1988, where they were both charged in connection with the death of Janine Balding.
Court documents show he sought group sex material with 16 men and one woman and repeatedly asked for violent and extreme pornography involving minors.
“This is very, very concerning,” said Ms Milledge.
“It’s not like he just went on a dating site or anything.”
Police prosecutor Nicole McMahon told the court that Wilmot had tried to downplay his actions by ‘blaming his phone’.
She said the 51-year-old complained that his phone was plagued by pop-up ads encouraging him to watch explicit material.
Ms 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.”
The prosecutor demanded that the serial rapist be sentenced to two years in prison for this offense.
“The longer Mr Wilmot is held, the longer the community as a whole will be protected,” Ms McMahon said.
“It would be the ultimate deterrent.”
Ms Milledge agreed that Wilmot’s lengthy criminal record was “quite disturbing, if not frightening”.
She conceded that the rapist may have been “curious” about the pop-ups, but noted that the terms of his supervision order “could not have been clearer, namely that these types of sites were not to be visited by you.”
After applying a discount for his early guilty plea, Mrs Milledge sentenced the 51-year-old to 18 months in prison.
Arrow (left) and Wilmot (right) are escorted by police to the Campbelltown District Court, where they are charged with the murder of Janine Balding
The court was told that Wilmot had only been out of prison twice for short periods since he was first jailed as a teenager.
“He has been in detention almost continuously since he was 15 years old,” Bhutani said.
“(From) what I’ve read of his history, that’s where he belongs,” the magistrate replied.
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”.
“He has no understanding of the risk he poses to others and refuses to recognize the need for risk management strategies,” she said.
Wilmot displayed “psychopathic personality traits” and posed a risk of reoffending, the state Supreme Court was told.
In September 1988, he was 15 years old when he was involved in the shocking kidnapping, rape and murder of bank employee Janine Balding.
In a crime that shocked the state, Wilmot and a group of accomplices travelled to Sutherland railway station and abducted Mrs Balding at knifepoint.
She was forced into a car driven by Wilmot and sexually assaulted in the backseat before being driven to a remote area of western Sydney where she was sexually assaulted again.
Sydney woman Janine Balding was abducted, raped and murdered in 1988 after being taken outside a train station
Wilmot was 15 years old in September 1988 when he was involved in the shocking kidnapping, rape and murder of bank clerk Mrs Balding
Wilmot remained in the car while the other youths drowned Mrs Balding in a dam.
When he was sentenced in the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1990, the judge acknowledged that Wilmot “knew nothing about their decision to subsequently murder her” and was not involved in the murder.
The judge ruled that the then 15-year-old Ms Balding had not raped her, but that he 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.