Police have sent geo-targeted alert texts to residents on the Central Coast, warning them about a man who stabbed a sexual partner to death during a drug-fuelled meet-up more than two decades ago.
Trent Jennings, 38, failed to return to a mental health facility on Wednesday night and was last seen at a motel on The Entrance Road at The Entrance.
He is currently wanted by police on an outstanding arrest order, but members of the public are warned to steer clear and contact police.
‘Trent is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 175cm tall with a medium build, short brown receding hair, and has a scar on his right hand,’ NSW Police said in the text message.
‘The public is urged NOT TO APPROACH this man and to contact Triple Zero (000) immediately if they see him or know of his whereabouts.’
Sydney city police on Friday raised the alarm about Trent Jennings, who was last seen on the NSW Central Coast on Wednesday night, after he failed to return to a mental health facility
Police sent out a geo-targeted alert text to residents in NSW’s Central Coast on Sunday asking for assistance to find Mr Jennings
Jennings was previously ordered to spend an indefinite amount of time in a psychiatric hospital after stabbing 32-year-old Giuseppe Vitale to death in 2003
Jennings was previously ordered to spend an indefinite amount of time in a psychiatric hospital after stabbing 32-year-old Giuseppe Vitale to death in 2003.
The then-18-year-old met Mr Vitale online and the pair arranged to meet for casual sex before Jennings tied the older man up and stabbed him in the neck.
Jennings was in 2005 found not guilty of Mr Vitale’s murder on mental health grounds and detained in a hospital.
Six years later, he made headlines again when he absconded from Morisset hospital near Newcastle before going on the run in a stolen car belonging to another man he met online.
Jennings was handed a minimum 18-month jail sentence for the theft, which came after he tied the man up during a consensual bondage session at an inner-Sydney apartment.
Police are searching the Sydney city centre and other areas where he is known to spend time, including the Central Coast, Cumberland and Sutherland Shire areas.
Jennings was last seen wearing prescription glasses, a blue shirt, navy shorts, blue runners, a black and gold watch, and carrying a black backpack and a white tackle box.
He is wanted on an outstanding arrest order and was last seen at a motel on The Entrance Road at The Entrance (pictured), police said