A serial sex offender who was involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding has been jailed again after watching violent pornography.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, was released from prison last month and placed on an interim supervision order with conditions including electronic monitoring, abstinence from drugs and alcohol and restricted internet use.
However, just two weeks after his release, he was arrested and charged with violating the conditions by searching for and viewing explicit child abuse material.
On Tuesday, Wilmot was transferred to Waverley Local Court from a custody cell to be sentenced after pleading guilty to failing to comply with his supervision order.
He wore a green prison-issued tracksuit and nodded as his lawyer, Dev Bhutani, urged the court to consider imposing the minimum six-month sentence.
Mr Bhutani argued that a “short and severe prison sentence” would deter his client from breaching the supervision order again.
The court said Wilmot breached a court order restricting his internet use by searching for violent pornography, including “extreme” material involving underage women.
Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Milledge said Wilmot attempted to access “significantly hardcore pornography sites… involving gang sexual activity” by searching for terms such as “very, very extreme pornography videos”.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, has been charged with breaching his supervision order by viewing pornographic material.
Carol Anne Arrow (18) right and Wayne Wilmot (15) left, at Campbelltown Local Court in Sydney, September 1988, where they were both charged in connection with the death of Janine Balding.
According to court documents, he sought out group sex material involving 16 men and one woman and repeatedly requested violent and extreme pornography involving minors.
“This is very worrying,” Ms Milledge said.
“It’s not like I went on a dating site or anything.”
Police prosecutor Nicole McMahon told the court that Wilmot had tried to play down his actions by “blaming his phone”.
He said the 51-year-old man complained that his phone had been plagued with pop-up adverts that had encouraged him to look at 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 offending”.
She said he had shown no remorse for his actions and argued that the “real and extremely high risk” of Wilmot reoffending “could not be mitigated at all by any alternative”.
The police prosecutor pushed for the serial rapist to be jailed for two years for the rape.
“The longer Mr. Wilmot remains in custody, 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 worrying, not to say frightening”.
She accepted that the rapist may have been “curious” about the pop-ups, but noted that the terms of his supervision order “could not be clearer that you must not access such sites”.
After applying a discount for his early guilty plea, Ms Milledge sentenced the 51-year-old to 18 months behind bars.
Arrow (left) and Wilmot (right) are escorted by police into Campbelltown Court, where they faced charges relating to the murder of Janine Balding.
The court was told Wilmot had only been out of jail for two brief periods since he was first jailed as a teenager.
“Since he was 15, he has been detained almost continuously,” Bhutani said.
“From what I’ve read of your history, that’s where you should be,” the judge replied.
Earlier this year, Supreme Court Justice Helen Wilson described Wilmot as someone who had a “disturbing history of sexual offending which he continues to deny or downplay”.
“He has no idea of the risk he poses to others and refuses to acknowledge the need for risk management strategies,” he said.
Wilmot displayed “psychopathic personality traits” and posed a risk of violent reoffending, the state’s highest court was told.
He was 15 years old in September 1988 when he was involved in the shocking kidnapping, rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding.
In a crime that shocked the state, Wilmot and a group of co-offenders travelled to Sutherland train station and kidnapped Ms Balding at knifepoint.
She was forced into a car driven by Wilmot and sexually assaulted in the back seat before being driven to an isolated area of western Sydney, where she was sexually assaulted again.
Janine Balding, a Sydney woman, was abducted, raped and murdered after being taken from a train station gate in 1988.
Wilmot was 15 in September 1988 when he was involved in the shocking kidnapping, rape and murder of bank teller Mrs Balding.
Wilmot remained in the car while the other youths drowned Ms. Balding in a dam.
When he was sentenced in the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1990, the judge accepted that Wilmot “knew nothing of his decision to kill her afterwards” and was not involved in the murder.
The judge found that the 15-year-old had not raped Ms Balding, but was guilty because of his role in the joint criminal enterprise.
Wilmot was jailed for nine years and four months for a range of offences including sexual intercourse without consent, detention with intent to obtain advantage and robbery in company.
He was released on parole in October 1996, but subsequently committed violent and sexual assaults against women.
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