Less than two weeks after he was released from prison, a member of the gang that abducted, raped and killed Sydney bank teller Janine Balding is back behind bars after allegedly breaching the conditions of his supervision order by searching for child abuse material on his mobile phone.
A serial sex offender, Wayne Wilmot, 51, was placed under an interim supervision order when he left prison earlier this month, which included electronic monitoring, a curfew and not using drugs.
Wayne Wilmot, far left, with police, and Janine Balding, right.
On Friday morning, officers monitoring Wilmot’s phone allegedly found evidence of searches including one for “very, very extreme” pornography, police sources not authorised to speak publicly told the Herald.
He was found to be in breach of his supervision order and arrested to appear before Waverley Local Court on Friday afternoon.
Wilmot was first incarcerated as a teenager and had spent the intervening 30 plus years behind bars, except for a 20-month stint in the 1990s. In that time, he committed multiple violent and sexual assaults against women.
Wilmot was among five youths who forced Balding into her car at knifepoint at Sutherland train station on September 8, 1988.
According to the facts, Wilmot drove as Balding was sexually assaulted on the journey, then bound and drowned in a dam at Minchinbury. He remained in the car with a girl while three others killed Balding.
Wilmot did not rape Balding, but was sentenced in 1990 for charges including abduction, robbery and sexual intercourse without consent due to being part of the “joint venture”. The judge accepted Wilmot “knew nothing of their decision to kill her afterwards”.
He is currently under an interim supervision order while on conditional release from prison, and was due to return to the Supreme Court next Friday for the state’s application for a five-year order that would place conditions on his liberty.