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.Supplied
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 theHerald.
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.
Wilmot did not rape Balding. However,he was sentenced in 1990 for 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 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.
Wilmot has previously described such restrictions as “bullshit”.
On Friday,Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill Shorten - who had previously branded Wilmot’s receipt of NDIS support “not appropriate” - announced a panel will examine the management of violent ex-prisoners through the NDIS.