Bill Shorten has launched a furious bid to block one of ‘s worst rapists from receiving a support package from the National Disability Insurance Scheme when he is released from prison amid fears he could strike again.
Wayne Wilmot, who was involved in the 1988 gang rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding and is now aged in his early 50s, is set to be released from custody after spending almost his entire adult life in prison.
This is despite a forensic psychologist finding he poses a ‘significant risk’ of reoffending because he remains ‘supportive of sexual violence towards women’.
The n reported Wilmot had received an NDIS support package, including up to 24 hours help each week with reintegrating into society due to his severe personality disorder and psychopathic tendencies.
But now NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has revealed his office is working to block Wilmot’s funding and insisted the responsibility for community safety lies with NSW Corrective Services.
‘The NDIS cannot be responsible for criminals who are on parole,’ Mr Shorten told Daily Mail .
‘Being a criminal is a not a disability. Being a sex predator is not a disability.’
Wayne Wilmot (pictured, left), who is now aged in his early 50s and who was involved in the 1988 gang rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding (pictured below), is set to be released from custody after spending almost his entire adult life in prison
But now Bill Shorten (pictured), Minister for NDIS, has revealed his office is working to block Wilmot’s funding and said the responsibility for community safety lies with NSW Corrections
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‘We do not believe it is appropriate for this person to receive NDIS-funded community support in this case, and we are working to ensure this is the outcome within the law.
Mr Shorten said the wider issue of criminals self-managing their NDIS plans had been ‘festering’ for years but the Albanese government was committed to halting it.
‘The NDIS cannot be the dumping ground for state justice systems to keep ns safe from violent criminals,’ he said.
‘I am writing to the states to demand they start reporting and stop keeping the NDIA in the dark when a serious criminal is released from their jails.’
Mr Shorten insisted the state governments needed to step up and deal with law and order issues.
Wilmot’s extensive criminal history officially began with a sex attack on a woman walking through a park when he was 13, after which he reportedly said ‘I’ve … got a problem’ and ‘This is not the first time I’ve done this’.
He later served eight years for his role in the abduction, rape and murder of Ms Balding, committed when he was 15.
The 20-year-old bank teller was grabbed from a Sydney train station by a gang of homeless youths with one of them overheard saying ‘why don’t we get a sheila and rape her’.
Ms Balding was held at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.
Wilmot remained in the car when Ms Balding was then bound, gagged and thrown over a fence before being held underwater in a dam until she drowned.
He has committed sexual offences against women and men, involving at least eight victims including a woman he beat, bound and raped at another Sydney train station in 1998.
The sentencing judge found the victim ‘was subjected to extreme brutality and sexual violation’, which had a devastating impact on her.
The 20-year-old bank teller (pictured) was grabbed from a Sydney train station by a gang of five homeless youths before she was repeatedly raped
In 2019, Wilmot was ordered to stay in jail under a continuing detention order (CDO), despite serving his sentence.
In granting the CDO, Justice Julia Lonergan noted Wilmot’s ‘appalling criminal history and pattern of offending’ and ruled that he posed an ‘unacceptable risk of committing another serious offence if not kept in detention under the order’.
He also blamed his victims, lacked insight, and had a personality disorder and antisocial and aggressive traits and behaviours.
Another CDO was granted but now the state of NSW has been granted an interim extended supervision order.
This means Wilmot can be released from custody under extremely strict supervisions monitoring his movements and internet use.
‘Supervision will be at a high level, with the defendant required to adhere to a schedule of movements, observe a curfew (9pm to 6am), and wear an electronic monitoring device,’’ Justice Wilson reportedly said.
Mr Shorten (pictured) said ‘the NDIS cannot be the dumping ground for state justice systems to keep ns safe from violent criminals’
The NSW Supreme Court heard a forensic psychologist’s report found that Wilmot felt entitled to ‘simply take whatever he wants’, believing some women ‘deserve sexual violence depending upon their clothing, level of intoxication, or perceived permissiveness’.
The psychologist told the court that the risk Wilmot posed was ‘most likely to involve a penetrative sexual attack upon a young woman previously unknown to him’.
‘Any offence would probably be impulsive, opportunistic, and target a vulnerable woman,’ the psychologist said.
‘Physical coercion and threats would likely be employed. The risk of such a scenario eventuating is well above average.’
Wilmot’s case will be heard again on Thursday.
A spokesperson for the National Disability Insurance Agency, responsible for implementing the NDIS, said Corrections NSW was in charge of the management of Wilmot’s eventual release.
‘The NDIS is not responsible or designed to address community safety,’ the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that final NDIS supports are not yet determined for Wilmot.
‘Should a participant have a criminal history involving violent crime, the NDIA can and does place an alert on their file and takes measures to apply tighter plan management settings that restrict the participant to only use registered providers for NDIS services.,’ the spokesperson said.
‘Should a participant be identified as a potential risk, the NDIA may also take action to ensure only appropriate persons (e.g. only male workers) are able to deliver these supports.’