Shocking reason why serial rapist and bank clerk murderer Wayne Wilmot is back behind bars just weeks after his release

A serial sex offender involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of bank employee Janine Balding has been jailed again after viewing violent pornographic material.

Wayne Wilmot, 51, was released from prison last month and placed on a provisional suspended sentence that includes electronic monitoring, drug and alcohol abstinence and restricted internet use.

But just two weeks after his release, he was arrested and charged with violating parole by searching for and viewing explicit child abuse material.

On Tuesday, Wilmot was beamed from his holding cell to Waverley Local Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to failing to comply with his restraining order.

Wearing a green prison tracksuit, he nodded as his lawyer Dev Bhutani urged the court to consider imposing the minimum sentence of six months.

Mr Bhutani argued that a “short, sharp prison sentence” would deter his client from violating the surveillance order again.

The court was told that Wilmot had breached a court order restricting his internet use by searching for violent pornography, including “extreme” material involving underage women.

Judge Jacqueline Milledge found that Wilmot had attempted to access “significantly hard porn sites … featuring sexual gang activity” by searching for terms such as “very, very extreme hard f*** porn videos.”

According to court documents, he sought group sex material involving 16 men and one woman and repeatedly requested violent and extreme pornography involving minors.

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“This is very, very worrying,” Ms Milledge said.

“It’s not like he just went on a dating site or anything.”

Police prosecutor Nicole McMahon told the court that Wilmot had downplayed his role by “blaming his phone”.

Police prosecutor Nicole McMahon told the court that Wilmot had tried to downplay his actions by “blaming his phone.”

She said the 51-year-old had complained that his phone was constantly displaying pop-up ads that were tricking him into viewing explicit material.

Ms McMahon said the breach was “extremely serious” given the violent nature of the material and Wilmot’s history of “extreme violence and sexual assault”.

She found that he had shown no remorse for his actions and argued that the “real and extremely high risk” of Wilmot reoffending “cannot be mitigated by any alternative”.

The prosecutor demanded a two-year prison sentence for the serial rapist.

“The longer Mr Wilmot is detained, the longer the community as a whole is protected,” Ms McMahon said.

“It would be the ultimate deterrent.”

Ms Milledge agreed that Wilmot’s long criminal record was “quite worrying, if not frightening”.

While she acknowledged that the rapist may have been “curious” about the pop-ups, she noted that his order “could not be clearer that you are not permitted to access such websites.”

After taking into account his early guilty plea, Ms Milledge sentenced the 51-year-old to 18 months in prison.

The court was told that Wilmot had only been released from prison for two short stints since he was first imprisoned as a teenager.

“He has been in detention almost continuously since he was 15,” Mr Bhutani noted.

“From what I’ve read about his past, that’s where he belongs,” the judge replied.

Earlier this year, High Court Judge Helen Wilson described Wilmot as someone with a “troubling history of sexual assault, which he continues to deny or downplay”.

“He lacks insight into the risk he poses to others and refuses to acknowledge the need for risk management strategies,” she said.

The state Supreme Court was told that Wilmot exhibited “psychopathic personality traits” and was at risk of becoming violent again.

In September 1988, he was 15 years old when he was involved in the shocking kidnapping, rape and murder of bank employee Janine Balding.

In a crime that shocked the state, Wilmot and a group of accomplices travelled to Sutherland station and abducted Mrs Balding at knifepoint.

She was forced into a car driven by Wilmot and sexually assaulted in the back seat. She was then driven to a remote area in western Sydney where she was sexually assaulted again.

Wilmot stayed in the car while the other youths drowned Mrs Balding in a dam.

At sentencing in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1990, the judge accepted that Wilmot “was unaware of her subsequent decision to kill her” and was not involved in the murder.

The judge concluded that the then 15-year-old had not raped Ms Balding, but was guilty because of his involvement in the joint criminal organization.

Wilmot was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for a number of offences, including sexual intercourse without consent, false imprisonment with intent to obtain an advantage and robbery in company.

He was released on parole in October 1996, but subsequently committed acts of violence and sexual assault against women.