A serial rapist who is deemed a high risk of sexually assaulting women and children has been granted a $220,000-a-year NDIS funding package and access to hardcore pornography in custody.
Wayne Wilmot, now aged 53, was part of the pack involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sydney bank teller Janine Balding in September 1988. He has been in and out of prison since he was arrested aged 15 over Ms Balding’s murder.
He has a long and violent record of sexually assaulting women while on parole or bail. In a recent judgment, the NSW Supreme Court found that he would be likely to offend again, most likely involving ‘forced penetrative sexual activity and sexual coercion (which) may involve violence, weapons … and could be perpetrated against children’.
Justice Sarah McNaughton’s judgment reveals that Wilmot was last year granted National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding until June 2026.
It noted that the NDIS last year ‘approved a 12 month plan for the defendant in the amount of $221,620.99 with the funding to be reviewed annually’.
The funding covers Wilmot’s access to a support service, Mates & Mentors, while he is on external leave from the prison halfway house he is required to live in. He is also eligible for four hours of daily support ‘for assistance with social economic and community participation’, seven days a week.
The judgment reveals that Wilmot can request to access pornography ‘or use the services of escorts or brothels’ subject to a supervising officer’s discretion.
In mid-2024, according to a supervision order, Wilmot ‘accessed adult sex shops online and this appeared to manage his sexual urges.’
Wayne Wilmot was one of five people who abducted and raped bank teller Janine Balding, 20. In September 1988 she was taken to a remote paddock and drowned in a dam
Wilmot, left, and Carol Anne Arrow (right) at Campbelltown Local Court in Sydney 1988, where they were both charged with five counts relating to Janine Balding’s death at Minchinbury
Now aged 53, Wayne Wilmot has a four decade-long history of sexual offending against women, but was granted access to NDIS funding and pornography while on release
His supervisors recommended he ‘purchase pornographic magazines from an adult bookstore’ instead of the pornography website he was interested in.
Days later, his supervisory officer found Wilmot had accessed without approval ‘very, very extreme’ pornographic material involving Asian people and teenagers.
It was on September 8, 1988 when a teenage Wilmot – who was on bail – and three other males aged 14 to 22 and a woman kidnapped Ms Balding at knifepoint from Sutherland Railway Station car park about 6pm.
The 20-year-old was forced into her own car and driven down the M4 motorway by Wilmot to a remote spot in Minchinbury in western Sydney where she was sexually assaulted, hogtied, and gagged.
Ms Balding was then carried to a dam where she was held down and drowned. The gang stole the jewellery off her body, and withdrew cash with her bank card.
They were arrested within days and three of Wilmot’s co-accused were given life sentences plus 25 years.
Wilmot was charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent, and one each of robbery in company and detaining with intent to gain advantage.
He was sentenced to nine years and four months, with a seven-year minimum, and released on parole in October 1996.
Wayne Wilmot is led away at court after his arrest and charge over the abduction and rape of Janine Balding who was murdered and her body dumped in 1988
Wilmot denies his appalling history of offending and minimises his guilt from offences of raping Janine Balding (above) before her murder and robbing her body to assaulting other women at Sydney train stations
In 1997 he robbed and assaulted a woman in Ashfield, in inner-western Sydney, and in 1998 tied up and sexually assaulted a terrified 19-year-old female railway employee at Leightonfield Railway Station.
A few weeks later, he attempted to kidnap a young woman at Glenfield station, and was locked up.
But it was only via a 2004 DNA testing program for NSW Inmates that Wilmot’s semen was matched to the Leightonfield attack, and he was jailed in 2006 for a maximum of 12 years.
While in jail, he was convicted of sexually assaulting another inmate and committed further assaults on prisoners which he contended ‘were warranted’.
Wilmot was released on a supervision order in June 2024, but less than two weeks after his release breached the order with his extreme pornography video searches.
The Supreme Court has now returned Wilmot to custody for a year.
However he is living in Nunyara Community Offender Support Program (COSP), the halfway house attached to the back of Long Bay prison complex.
Wilmot is allowed external leave days and will undergo ‘a staged transition to the community’ over the next year.
Wayne ‘Shorty’ Jamieson, born with foetal alcohol syndrome, was convicted of Janine Balding’s murder and jailed for life. Now aged 59, he claims he was wrongly identified as the killer
Janine Balding was about to turn 21 and was engaged to be married when the bank teller was abducted while walking to her car at Sutherland Railway station
Wilmot held a coveted position working in the COSP’s kitchen until he aggressively attacked another inmate. He now works in the facility’s laundry.
One of Wilmot’s former cellmates reported being sexually assaulted by him. Wilmot has been charged in custody with intimidation, possession of prohibited weapons and assault.
The most recent assault allegation from November last year, that Wilmot headbutted and struck another inmate, was captured on CCTV.
Justice McNaughton’s judgement includes a February 2026 report on Wilmot by court-appointed psychologist, Patrick Sheehan.
Mr Sheehan reported Wilmot’s ‘risk of a serious sex offence to be at the “high end of the risk spectrum” and that it was “very clear” he could not live in the community in the future without an Extended Supervision Order (ESO)’.
This might have to be with a ‘line-of-sight condition’, a costly provision which would require constant supervision.
In 2024, Mr Sheehan found Wilmot ‘took almost no responsibility for his offence history relating to sexual violence … flatly denying’ the Janine Balding offence, and ‘implying that his other convictions were also false, even those to which he (pleaded) guilty.’
Wilmot’s co-accused in the Balding attack, Wayne ‘Shorty’ Jamieson, was jailed for life and is now aged 59. He also denied culpability, claiming it was another person nicknamed ‘Shorty’ who perpetrated the murder.
The court judgment said that Wilmot has impulsivity, anger and aggression issues, is deceitful, has reckless disregard for the safety of others and ‘he was unable to express any empathy or remorse’.
Wilmot has also been assessed as suffering from psychopathy and a psychologist said he was at ‘well above average risk for further sexual offending’ and ‘at a high risk for violent offending’.
Wilmot is due for release back into the community on March 19, 2027. On release, the court judgment further noted that ‘in the context of anticipated NDIS support in the community’ a warning had been issued about his behaviour on the outside.
A consultant neuropsychologist had stated that ‘NDIS Services rarely tolerate intimidating interactions that can’t be safely managed.
‘Failed community integration will isolate (Wilmot).’
