Graham Kay case returns to court as victim pleads “lock him up”
As covicted rapist Graham Kay returns to court today, one of his victims has urged the courts to keep him in prison after Kay’s son wrote to the DDP calling him “a monster”.
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The case of North Shore rapist Graham Kay is to return to court tomorrow (Thursday) with one of his victims saying: “Every time his name is mentioned, we relive the nightmare.”
Lawyers for the convicted serial rapist, who is on remand in prison for allegedly sexually touching a teen girl at a pharmacy in Sydney’s CBD, are set for a committal hearing to discuss a progress report in the brief of evidence at Sydney’s Downing Centre on Thursday.
“How many times must we hear he’s back in court, another mention, another hearing, another charge?” said Juanita, who was dragged into a tunnel and raped at knifepoint by Kay in 1996.
“The justice system was wrong to let him out in 2015 – he’s an exceptionally tall man who is supposed to be monitored in the community but he keeps reoffending – I can’t get on with my life until I know he’s back behind bars for good,” she said.
“I live with anxiety and the fear of seeing him again. I just want to put it all behind me but he keeps re-offending and appearing in court,” she said.
His eldest son Damien last month called on the justice system to lock up the “monster” after he was arrested over allegedly sexually touching a teen girl at a pharmacy in Sydney’s CBD.
In the handwritten note to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said his father’s “hideous and violent” previous crimes have placed a crippling weight on his shoulders for more than three decades and begged the prosecuting body to “lock him up and throw away the key.”
Referring to Thursday’s hearing at the Downing Centre, he said: “It’s the same old, same old, I hope they take my letter into consideration.
“If I thought he would be there I’d go and look him in the eye, but I’m sure he’ll be sitting his cushy prison cell on video link all protected.
“When he turns up in person, I’ll go and look him in the eye. I want him to know I definitely wrote that letter – it’ll be the last time I see him alive. He should be locked forever. He’s beyond remorse, he’s seventy odd but he’s not changing.”
In March Kay, 73, received fresh charges of breaching his supervision order over an alleged meeting with sex workers days before he was accused of sexually touching a 16-year-old girl without consent at a pharmacy.
The ESO breaches come after he was charged with sexually touching the 16-year-old at Chemist warehouse on about 6pm in late February.
The father of three, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting eight women around Artarmon, was released in 2015 serving 18 of his 20-year sentence.
After his parole ended he was placed on a strict ESO with 42 conditions.
Deemed a “sexual sadist” by psychologists and vulnerable to relapse, he was on his third extended supervision order (ESO) at the time of the alleged assault on the teenager.
He breached his first ESO twice in 2018 – once when he kissed a young staffer on the cheek at a Woolworths grocery store.
He failed to respect the conditions of his ESO in 2022 when he stalked a woman around Sydney’s CBD for hours before following her into her apartment complex and sexually assaulting her.
After serving a year back in jail for stalking the woman, he was released on condition he continues to wear the ankle bracelet and report to supervisors.
Police allege in court documents relating to the fresh charges that once married Kay “engaged” a sex worker with whom he had exchanged 86 messages between February 5 and 20.
On the same day he allegedly grabbed the girl, Kay is accused of arranging to see a sex worker for a one hour for $330.
He is accused of not disclosing his relationship, the home visits or associating with a person he reasonably should have known was under 18.
Last September the NSW Supreme Court placed him on an ESO that included strict monitoring until September 2027.
He had served 18 years of a 20-year prison sentence and was released from jail in 2015 after a one-year Reign of Terror during which he raped eight women and two girls at knifepoint in the 1990s
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