One of the men convicted of abducting and raping Sydney woman Janine Balding in the late 1980s will remain behind bars over fears he is too dangerous to be released back into the community.
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Wayne Wilmot, 50, was issued a one-year detention order by the Supreme Court commencing this week, during which time arrangements will be made for him to be released with sufficient supervision to ensure public safety.
In a judgment published on Friday, Justice Julia Lonergan noted Wilmot has an extensive history of violent sexual offending and had been diagnosed as displaying psychopathic traits.
Psychological assessments conducted on Wilmot in 2019 found him to have an IQ of just 74 and to be highly callous, manipulative and deceptive, consistent with psychopathy.
Wilmot was one of five homeless youths convicted over the 1968 abduction of Ms Balding, in a case that stunned the nation with its brutality and the age of the offenders.
The 20-year-old bank teller was repeatedly gang raped before being bound, gagged held underwater in a dam until she drowned.
Wilmot, who was 15 at the time, was found not to have taken part in the murder and sentenced to eight years in prison over the abduction and rape.
Before the attack on Ms Balding, Wilmot was found guilty of committing two other violent sexual assaults on women in public places.
After being released on parole in 1996, having served his time for the attack on Ms Balding, Wilmot robbed one female victim and assaulted another.
"When released on bail for that offending, he carried out two other very serious violent and sexual attacks on two young women, just weeks apart, in June 1998, leading to further sentences of imprisonment," Justice Lonergan said in her ruling.
Having spent most of his life in jail, Wilmot was described in an affidavit by co-existing disorders program project co-ordinator, Ryan Gaffney, as "institutionalised".
In his affadavit, Mr Gaffney said when Wilmot is eventually released from jail he should be supervised at all times while in public by at least two extended supervision order officers.
Earlier this year, Wilmot was acquitted of two separate charges related to sexual offending while in custody and was placed under an interim detention order which was extended the maximum number of times to keep him in jail.
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