Less than two weeks after Wayne Wilmot was released from prison, the member of the gang that abducted, raped and killed Sydney bank teller Janine Balding is back behind bars after allegedly searching for child abuse material on his mobile phone.
A serial sex offender, 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 his phone allegedly found evidence of searches including one for “very, very extreme” pornography, breaching the conditions of his supervision order, police sources not authorised to speak publicly told the Herald.
Wilmot was charged with failing to comply with his supervision order and arrested to appear before Waverley Local Court on Friday afternoon.
He did not apply for bail and will remain remanded in custody for another two weeks while the Director of Public Prosecutions decides whether to leave the matter in Local Court where the maximum sentence is two years or take it to the District Court where a conviction of breaching a supervision order can carry five years’ imprisonment.
Wearing a black t-shirt, Wilmot did not speak as he sat in the dock of Waverley Local Court, but gave his Legal Aid lawyer a thumbs up as he returned to the cells at the neighbouring Waverley Police Station.
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. He remained in the car with a girl while three others bound and drowned Balding in a dam at Minchinbury.