A remorseless serial rapist who was jailed over his involvement in the 1988 abduction of murder victim Janine Balding will be kept in jail for another year beyond the expiry of his sentence, after a court found he was a danger of committing another sexual offence.
Wayne Wilmot will remain in prison until March next year after the State of NSW successfully fought to have him locked up for another 12 months, a court was told on Thursday.
Wilmot, 53, was due to be released in December last year. However the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday ruled he should be kept in custody under a Continuing Detention Order because he was a danger to the community.
Wilmot’s long history of violent, sexual offending stretches back nearly four decades. In September 1988, Wilmot was 15 years old and on bail when he was involved in the kidnapping and rape of Janine Balding before she was murdered.
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He was part of a gang that formed a plan to abduct and sexually assault a random female victim.
His co-offenders kidnapped Ms Balding at knifepoint at Sutherland Railway Station and forced into a car which was being driven by Wilmot.
She was sexually assaulted in the back seat before she was driven to a remote spot in western Sydney where she was again sexually assaulted, bound, gagged and thrown over a fence and drowned in a dam.
Wilmot remained in the car and he was not involved in her killing.
He was sentenced for a string of offences including four counts of sexual intercourse without consent, detain with intent to gain advantage and robbery in company.
He was sentenced to nine years and four months, with a seven-year non-parole period.
He was released on parole in October 1996 but, less than a year later, he robbed a woman and pushing her to the ground in Ashfield.
In 1998 he tied up and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old railway employee at Leightonfield Railway Station.
In 2004 he was DNA matched to the horrific crime and was later jailed for a maximum of 12 years.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
While in prison he was convicted of sexually assaulting another inmate.
He was released in June 2024, but less than two weeks after his release he was rearrested when he breached the terms of his supervision order when he searched for “very, extreme hard” pornographic videos on his phone.
Wilmot has been in jail for most of his adult life, has failed to express remorse or guilt for his crimes and continues to disavow responsibility, the court was previously told.
Justice Sarah McNaughton said in a judgment on Thursday that, according to expert opinion, Wilmot was a risk of further serious, violent sexual offending and there was a chance that he would target children.
“I am satisfied to a high degree of probability that the defendant poses an unacceptable risk of committing another serious offence of a sexual nature if not kept in detention,” Justice McNaughton said.
Wilmot will be held under a continuing detention order expiring on March 19 next year.
https://thewest.com.au/news/unacceptable-risk-serial-rapist-suffers-massive-legal-loss-to-remain-behind-bars-c-21998093
