‘Traumatised’ son of North Shore rapist Graham Kay sends plea letter to DPP
In a poignant letter, serial rapist Graham Kay’s son says his father’s “hideous and violent” crimes have weighed on him for more than 30 years, and he should never be released.
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The son of convicted serial North Shore rapist Graham Kay has 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 a poignant handwritten note to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kay’s eldest son, who wishes to be known only by his initial D, says his father’s “hideous and violent” crimes have placed a heavy weight on his shoulders for more than three decades and begged the prosecuting body to “lock him up and throw away the key.”
In the letter passed to the newspaper and read in tears by one of his victims Juanita, Mr D Kay, 50, a father of three, says he is “speaking as a silent victim, meaning the innocent family member of a perpetrator of such hideous violent crimes against women who has had to live with enormous shame guilt and trauma that is not mine to carry.”
“It totally perplexes me, to the point of breaking my brain, as to how their so-called justice system continually fails the public, women specifically, by continually releasing my father,” he writes.
“Who is a historically and repeatedly proven menace and danger to women in the community?
“This monster should never be released.
“The monitoring systems and bail/conditions handed down by the judicial system are farcical.”
He ends the missive: “It breaks my heart to say this about my own father but it is undoubtedly necessary. Him up and throw away the key.”
Kay last week 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.
One of his earlier victims, Juanita, who was dragged into a tunnel and raped at knifepoint by Graham Kay in 1996, still jumps out of her skin when she sees a lofty man approaching.
“The justice system was wrong to let him out in 2015 – this is man who is supposed to be monitored in the community around the clock and he keeps reoffending – he can’t be rehabilitated,” she added.
“He’s a 73-year-old strong man — he overpowers. .
“What will it take to keep him locked up?” she said in tears.
Kay, 73, was released in 2015 serving 18 of his 20-year sentence and after his parole ended and placed on a strict ESO with 42 conditions.
The fresh alleged breaches of his ESO come after he was charged with sexually touching the 16-year-old at Chemist warehouse on about 6pm in late February.
Deemed a dangerous crimina, – a forensic psychiatrist Dr Anthony Samuels said he met the criteria of “sexual sadism” and was “vulnerable to relapse” – he was on his third extended supervision order (ESO) at the time of the alleged assault.
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 adhere to conditions of his ESO in 2022 when he followed a woman around Sydney’s CBD for hours before following her into her apartment complex and sexually assaulting her.
After serving a year 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 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 failing to disclose his relationship, not revealing home visits and associating with a person he reasonably should have known was under 18.
Last September the NSW Supreme Court placed him on an ESO that keeps him under strict monitoring until September 2027.
He had served 18 years of a 20-year prison sentence and was released from jail in 2015 after inflicting a one-year reign of terror raping eight women and two girls at knifepoint in the 1990s.
In court last week, Kay’s lawyer Jordan Portokalli said Kay wasn’t making a bail application.
The case has been adjourned for two weeks.
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