Trent Jennings: Central Coast police take desperate measures to track down mental patient who stabbed a sexual partner to death during a drug-fueled gathering 20 years ago
Police have sent geographically targeted alert texts to residents on the Central Coast, warning them of a man who stabbed a sexual partner to death during a drug-fuelled gathering more than 20 years ago.
Trent Jennings, 38, was unable to return to a mental health facility Wednesday evening and was last seen at a motel on The Entrance Road near The Entrance.
He is currently wanted by police on an outstanding warrant, but the public is being warned to stay away and contact police.
“Trent is described as being white in appearance, approximately 175cm tall, 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 raised the alarm on Friday about Trent Jennings, who was last seen on the NSW Central Coast on Wednesday evening after failing to return to a mental health facility
Police sent a geographically targeted alert text to residents of NSW's Central Coast on Sunday asking for help finding Mr Jennings
Jennings was previously ordered to spend an indefinite period in a psychiatric hospital after stabbing 32-year-old Giuseppe Vitale to death in 2003.
Jennings was previously ordered to remain in a psychiatric hospital indefinitely after stabbing 32-year-old Giuseppe Vitale to death in 2003.
The then 18-year-old met Mr Vitale online and the pair met up for casual sex before Jennings tied up the older man and stabbed him in the neck.
Jennings was found not guilty of Mr Vitale's murder on mental health grounds in 2005 and was held in a hospital.
Six years later he made headlines again when he disappeared from Morisset Hospital near Newcastle before fleeing in a stolen car belonging to another man he met online.
Jennings was jailed for a minimum of 18 months for the theft, after tying up the man during a consensual bondage session in a Sydney apartment.
Police are searching Sydney city center 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 blue shorts, blue runners, a black and gold watch and a black backpack and a white tackle box.
He is wanted on an outstanding warrant and was last seen at a motel on The Entrance Road near The Entrance (pictured), police said