North Shore rapist Graham Kay’s monitoring device to be removed

VICTIMS of the North Shore rapist say they won’t be able to sleep knowing that their attacker’s monitoring device will be removed on Saturday.

1997 police surveillance photo of serial rapist Graham Kay, who was sentenced in NSW Supreme Court after pleading guilty to raping eight women during 1995-96.

VICTIMS of the North Shore rapist say they won’t be able to sleep knowing that their attacker’s monitoring device will be removed on Saturday.

Four of Graham Kay’s eight victims told The Daily Telegraph they are reliving their knifepoint rapes amid fears their now 66-year-old attacker’s movements will no longer be monitored.

One woman, who was 17 when Kay raped her twice in 1995 and said he would find and kill her if she told anyone, said: “I still believe he will come and get me.

North Shore Rapist Graham Kay leaves Supreme Court. Picture: Dylan Robinson

“I am on the victims’ register­ ... I should be alerted about his developments but I never even knew he was released from jail.

“He robbed me of my life ... I was a baby, and now I no longer trust men ...

“Where is the justice in him being allowed­ to have his tag off when I have to live with what he has done to me forever?”

1997 police mug shot of Kay

Kay, who served 18 years of a 20-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting eight women in 1995-1996, has worn a monitoring device since being released in 2015.

Now senior correctional services officers have agreed to remove that device, after Kay appeared to comply with the 42 conditions of his extended supervision order.

That comes after forensic psychiatrist Dr Anthony Samuels earlier said Kay met the criteria of “sexual sadism” and was “vulnerable to relapse”, when he applied last year to take the tag off.

Victim Juanita wrote to Attorney-General Mark Speakman pleading for him to review the decision — and yesterday said she’d received a reply that included telling her to “dial triple-0” if she fears for her safety.

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“I know he’s out there somewhere and lie awake at night worrying,” Juanita said.

Other victims are also calling for the state government to fight to keep Kay’s monitoring device on.

Kay in handcuffs outside NSW Supreme Court in 1999.

“Lisa”, 55, who had a machete­ pressed to her throat as she was raped, said: “The horror of that night is haunting me. That man gave me a life sentence­ and he deserves his — to wear that tag forever.”

Victim “Angela” said: “I’m disgusted that tag comes off and I have to live suffering flashbacks of his face.”

In a reply to Juanita, and when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, Mr Speakman said a court bid to review the order would fail, adding Kay would be supervised for two years.

“I’m sorry this outcome distresses you,” he told Juanita.

Labor spokesman Paul Lynch called the decision to remove the tag “a mockery” of extended supervision orders.