North Shore Rapist Graham Kay loses bid to hide his identity from the public

THE man known as the North Shore Rapist — who hunted and sexually assaulted eight women and teenage girls — can now be named after he lost an attempt to put a permanent suppression order on his identity.

North Shore Rapist Graham Kay lost his bid to suppress his name from the media. Picture: Dylan Robinson

THE man known as the North Shore Rapist — who hunted and sexually assaulted eight women and teenage girls — can be named after he lost an attempt in the Supreme Court to put a permanent suppression order on his identity

Graham Kay, 65, is a high risk sex offender who will continue to be electronically monitored for the next three years after Justice Ian Harrison today granted an application by the state to extend a Corrective Services supervision order.

Since being released form jail after serving 18 years, Kay had been living in obscurity working mostly as a labourer at a Sydney fruit market.

But his Supreme Court fight to be freed from wearing an electronic monitoring device brought him back into the spotlight.

Kay tried to stop the media naming him, saying he feared for his safety if his horrific past was revealed.

But Justice Harrison rejected that application, allowing the media to report his identity.

Graham Kay attempts to hide from cameras as he leaves court. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Documents tendered to court revealed Kay was recently sacked from his job at Southern Cross Produce at Flemington Markets, in Sydney’s inner west, when his pixilated image was shown in the media and his female colleagues figured out to their horror that they were working alongside a convicted serial sex offender.

Kay wrote in the affidavit that a few days after his court appearance on February 27 he was approached by management.

Graham Kay’s police mugshot in 1997.

“They said they were weighing up the situation because some female workers had become aware of the media article and had voiced some concerns about me continuing to work there.”

He stated on March 8 he was sacked as a warehouse manager where he was in charge of a supervisor and 11 staff members.

“I was devastated,” he wrote.

He stated although his managers knew he was “on parole” and that he saw a forensic psychologist once a week, they did not know the nature of his offences.

Kay was released on parole after 18 years of a 20-year sentence for the series of rapes, which occurred between 1995 and 1996.

He would cruise the streets looking for victims and would follow his targets from train stations or ambush them outside their homes holding a knife to their throats while he sexually assaulted them.

Kay weirdly tried to blame the “phases of the moon” his diet and the “inviting demeanour and dress of his victims” for his brutal attacks.

During the hearing last month, forensic psychiatrist Dr Anthony Samuels gave evidence that he met the criteria of “sexual sadism” and was “vulnerable to relapse”.

His barrister Angela Cook said he wanted the supervision order lifted in part because wearing an electronic tracking device around his ankle at the beach made him uncomfortable.