REVEALED: Why ANOTHER dangerous sex offender who served decades in jail for the gang rape and 'thrill kill' of a 20-year-old woman will soon be roaming the streets - and he'll live in a home YOU pay for
- A man involved in gang rape and murder of a young woman may soon be free
- NSW government is fighting to keep the 'psychopathic' sex offender behind bars
- The man was first arrested for rape at 13 and even attacked women on parole
- He is triggered by how a woman dresses or how they walked down a street
A serial sex offender involved in the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman may soon be free to roam the streets.
The 46-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was one of four teenagers who kidnapped and gang raped Sydney woman Janine Balding.
The group then killed the 20-year-old by tying her up and drowning her in a dam.
The New South Wales Government has been fighting to keep the 'psychopathic' sex offender behind bars after his jail term expired in June, ABC reported.
The 46-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was one of four teenagers who kidnapped and gang raped Sydney woman Janine Balding (pictured)
The government has applied to keep the serial sex offender behind bars for an additional two years due to his 'horrendous' criminal history.
If the man is released, he may have to be housed under the National Disability Insurance Scheme but Corrective Services has been struggling to find an accommodation provider, the NSW Supreme Court heard on Wednesday.
Risk assessment reports show the offender fails to feel guilt or empathy for his victims and many prison psychologists his release from jail posed 'significant concerns'.
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Psychologists noted the offender's thoughts about hurting women could happen at any moment and were triggered by how a woman was dressed or how they walked down a street, The Australian reported.
'His psychopathic personality means that the normal inhibitions which restrain most people from offending, and most offenders from committing certain types of offences, are not operative,' senior psychologist with NSW Corrective Services Richard Parker said.
Forensic psychiatrist Kerri Eagle told the court the offender 'found restrictions difficult to tolerate'.
The offender was just 15 when he was involved in the rape and murder of Janine Balding (pictured)
The man has spent most of his life behind bars. He was arrested for rape at just 13 – just two years before he was involved in the attack against Ms Balding.
When he was first released from prison in 1996 he continued to assault women.
While on parole he attacked a woman at a railway station, which saw him locked up for a further 12 years.
He is currently being held on an interim detention order that will expire in two weeks.
His possible release comes as serial paedophile and child killer Michael Guider is preparing to be released from Sydney's Long Bay prison complex after his sentence for killing nine-year-old schoolgirl Samantha Knight expired.
Michael Guider (pictured) is preparing to be released from New South Wales' Long Bay prison complex after serving 17 years behind bars killing nine-year-old schoolgirl Samantha Knight.
The now 68-year-old pleaded guilty in 2002 to the manslaughter of the child, who disappeared from Bondi on August 19, 1986. Her body has never been found.
He also molested scores of young boys and girls aged between two and 16 in 1980s and the 1990s.
He was convicted of more than 60 sex crimes against prepubescent children, 15 years before he was charged with the schoolgirls' manslaughter.
He faced New South Wales District Court in September 1996 for offences against nine girls and two boys between January 1980 and January 1996.
For those offences, Guider's individual sentences totalled over 33 years, but a judge ordered them to be served concurrently with the longest term of 16 years.
Guider fronted the court again in February 2000 for charges relating to two other girls, for which his sentences totalled 35 years and six months.
Judge John O'Reilly ordered he served the sentences at the same time as the earlier offences.
Guider kidnapped Samantha (pictured) from near her Bondi home on August 9, 1886, and claimed she accidentally died of a drug overdose. Her body has never been found
He pleaded guilty for the 1986 manslaughter of Samantha Knight on June 7, 2002 and was sentenced to a maximum of 17 years in jail.
In total, Guider was sentenced to 86 years and three months behind bars, but served just 23 years.
The public have pleaded for New South Wales to implement sentencing laws similar to the US, where offenders could be jailed for hundreds of years for crimes such as the ones Guider committed.
Victim advocacy groups and the Police Association of NSW have urged the courts to make criminals serve jail sentences one at a time instead of having them 'lumped together'.
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