Serial rapist Wayne Wilmot involved in the abduction of murdered Sydney bank teller Janine Balding is back behind bars just two weeks after his release

One of the men convicted of kidnapping and raping Sydney bank teller Janine Balding before her murder in the late 1980s is back in custody less than two weeks after her release from prison.

Wayne Wilmot, 51, was placed under a temporary supervision order when he left prison earlier in June, including requiring him to be subject to electronic monitoring and a curfew.

He was also ordered not to access pornographic material and to abstain from illegal drugs.

But the violent sex offender was locked up again on Friday after allegedly violating the terms of the court order.

Wilmot did not apply for bail when he appeared at Waverley Local Court.

He will appear again in the same court on July 5.

Wayne Wilmot (pictured, left), now in his early fifties, was imprisoned for the kidnapping and gang rape of Janine Balding

Wilmot was due to return to the NSW Supreme Court in the coming week after being placed on parole from prison.

A judge said in April that the interim orders were essential to protect the community and manage the significant risk he posed, particularly due to the likelihood that he would commit a serious sexual offense again.

In a report for the court, a forensic psychologist said Wilmot was most likely to “commit an intrusive sexual assault on a young woman previously unknown to him.”

“Any crime would likely be impulsive and opportunistic and target a vulnerable woman,” the report said.

The risk of such a scenario occurring was ‘well above average’, while the risk of violent recidivism was ‘even greater’.

Wilmot was one of five homeless youths convicted of kidnapping Ms Balding in 1988, a case that stunned the nation because of the brutality involved and the age of the perpetrators.

The 20-year-old bank teller was repeatedly gang-raped before being bound, gagged and held underwater in a dam until she drowned.

The 20-year-old bank teller was repeatedly gang-raped before being bound, gagged and held underwater in a dam until she drowned

Wilmot, who was 15 at the time, was found not to have taken part in the murder but was sentenced to eight years in prison for the kidnapping and rape.

Before the attack on Ms Balding, he was found guilty of committing two other violent sexual attacks on women in public places.

After being released on parole in 1996, Wilmot robbed a female victim and assaulted another.

In 2023, Wilmot was acquitted of two separate charges relating to sexual offenses while in custody, and was given a pre-trial detention order that was extended the maximum number of times to keep him in prison.

Psychological assessments carried out on Wilmot in 2019 found that he had an IQ of only 74 and was highly callous, manipulative and deceitful, consistent with psychopathy.

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