A serial violent sex offender involved in the 1988 Sydney abduction of Janine Balding, who was raped and murdered, will have to spend another two years behind bars, despite having served his jail sentence.
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The State of NSW had applied to the Supreme Court for a two-year continuing detention order (CDO) for the man whose latest jail term expired on June 26.
Since then, he has been the subject of an interim detention order.
Justice Julia Lonergan on Tuesday granted the application for the CDO, which will expire on September 23, 2021, and is expected to make her reasons public on Wednesday afternoon.
CDOs are imposed when a judge is satisfied to a high degree of probability that an offender poses an "unacceptable risk" of committing a serious offence if not kept in detention.
The man had opposed the CDO, but conceded the state's alternative application for a five-year extended supervision order was appropriate.
His extensive criminal history officially began with a sex attack on a woman walking through a park when he was 13, after which he said "I've ... got a problem" and "this is not the first time I've done this".
He served eight years for the abduction and rape of Ms Balding.
The 20-year-old bank teller was grabbed from a Sydney train station by a gang of homeless youths before she was repeatedly raped.
The man, who was a teenager at the time, 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 woman 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.
In her preliminary judgment granting the interim order, Justice Lonergan said the man had a history of violating parole, supervision and conditional release obligations.
She noted his "appalling criminal history and pattern of offending" and his repeated denials and/or chilling minimisations of his violent sexual offending, his victim-blaming, lack of insight, personality disorder and antisocial and aggressive traits and behaviours.
Justice Lonergan heard psychiatric evidence including from one expert who said the man had a number of psychopathic traits, refused to accept responsibility for much of his offending and had repeatedly breached release conditions.
Australian Associated Press
