One of the men convicted of kidnapping and raping Sydney bank teller Janine Balding before her murder in the late 1980s has been returned to custody less than two weeks after being released from prison.
Wayne Wilmot, 51, was placed under an interim supervision order when he was released from jail in early June, which included requirements to be subject to electronic monitoring and a curfew.
He was also ordered not to access pornographic material and to refrain from using illicit drugs.
But the violent sex offender was locked up again on Friday after allegedly violating the conditions of the court order.
Wilmot did not apply for bail when he appeared at Waverley Local Court.
He is scheduled to reappear before the same court on July 5.
Wilmot was one of five homeless youths convicted of the 1988 kidnapping of Janine Balding.
Wayne Wilmot (pictured, left), now in his early 50s, who was jailed for the kidnapping and gang rape of Janine Balding.
Wilmot was due to return to the NSW Supreme Court next week after being released on parole from prison.
In April, a judge said interim orders were essential to protect the community and manage the significant risk he posed, particularly given the possibility of him committing another serious sexual offence.
In a report to the court, a forensic psychologist said Wilmot most likely committed “a penetrative sexual assault on a previously unknown young woman.”
“Any crime would likely be impulsive, opportunistic and target a vulnerable woman,” the report says.
The risk of such a scenario occurring was “well above average” and the risk of violent recidivism was “even higher.”
Wilmot was one of five homeless youths convicted of the kidnapping of Mrs Balding in 1988, a case that shocked the nation due to the brutality involved and the age of the offenders.
The 20-year-old bank teller was repeatedly gang-raped before being tied, gagged and held underwater in a dam until she drowned.
The 20-year-old bank teller was repeatedly gang-raped before being tied, gagged and held underwater in a dam until she drowned.
Wilmot, who was 15 at the time, was found not to have participated in the murder, but was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping and rape.
Before the attack on Ms Balding, he was convicted of committing two other violent sexual assaults on women in public places.
After being released on parole in 1996, Wilmot robbed one victim and assaulted another.
In 2023, Wilmot was acquitted of two separate charges relating to sexual offenses while in custody and was placed on a provisional detention order that was extended the maximum number of times to keep him in prison.
Psychological evaluations conducted on Wilmot in 2019 found that he had an IQ of just 74 and was highly callous, manipulative and deceitful, consistent with psychopathy.
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