EXCLUSIVE
A serial rapist caught watching extreme pornography in breach of the terms of his release has complained His latest sentence of 18 months in prison is too harsh a punishment.
Wayne Wilmot was involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding in September 1988 and has 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 restricted internet use.
There was public outrage when it was revealed that Wilmot would receive taxpayer-funded support through National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) when he left prison.
This support included a total of 24 hours of assistance each week to improve their “daily life” as well as their “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 interim supervision order.
On Tuesday, Wilmot appeared via audio-visual link at Waverley Local Court, where he pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the order and was sentenced.
The court said Wilmot breached a condition restricting his use of the internet by searching for violent pornography, including “extreme” material involving underage women.
A serial sex offender who was caught watching extreme pornography in breach of his release conditions 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 court documents, Wilmot sought out group sex material involving 16 men and one woman and repeatedly requested violent and extreme pornography involving minors.
His lawyer, Dev Bhutani, asked Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge to consider imposing a sentence of around six months, but she jailed him for a fixed term of 18 months.
“Since he was 15, he has been detained almost continuously,” Bhutani said.
Mrs. Milledge: “From what I’ve read of your history, that’s where you belong.”
Later that day, Wilmot filed an appeal against the severity of the sentence which will be heard in District Court.
Mr Bhutani had argued that a “short and severe prison sentence” would deter his client from breaching the supervision order again.
Ms Milledge said Wilmot had attempted to access “very hardcore pornography sites… involving group sexual activity” by searching for terms such as “very, very extreme pornography videos”.
“This is very worrying,” he said. “It’s not like I’ve gone 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 He 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”.
Sergeant McMahon lobbied for the serial rapist to be jailed for two years for the rape.
“The longer Wilmot is detained, the more protection the community at large will have,” McMahon said. “It would be the ultimate deterrent.”
Ms Milledge agreed that Wilmot’s lengthy criminal record was “quite worrying, not to say frightening”.
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”.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, has been charged with breaching his supervision order by viewing pornographic material.
Wilmot was 15 years old when 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 back seat before being driven to an isolated area of western Sydney, where she was sexually assaulted again.
Wilmot and the other 15-year-old – a girl with intellectual disabilities – were not actively involved when Ms Balding was dragged into a dam and drowned.
Judge Peter Newman, who sentenced the gang, accepted that Wilmot “knew nothing of his decision to kill her afterwards” and was not involved in the murder.
He ruled that Wilmot had not raped Ms Balding but was guilty because of his involvement 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.
Wilmot is due to appear in Downing Centre District Court on September 18.
