A notorious Sydney rapist will be placed under 24-hour electronic monitoring amid fears he poses a “high risk of sexual reoffending”, a court has been told.
Graham James Kay, also known as the “North Shore Rapist,” was given a long list of monitoring conditions for the next three years following his release from prison on Thursday.
In 2000, Kay was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a series of horrific sexual assaults on young women and girls over 12 months on Sydney’s north shore.
During the attacks, which took place in 1995 and 1996, he pointed a knife at his victims, gagged their mouths and tied their hands.
He was released on parole in February 2015, but in April 2018 contravened an extended supervision order (which imposed strict conditions on Kay in an attempt to protect the community) when he failed to disclose an intimate relationship.
Later that month, he reoffended when he kissed a 16-year-old supermarket worker.
The court was told the girl described the kiss on the cheek as “slobbery” and wiped her cheek vigorously after the unwanted kiss.
He was found guilty and sentenced to a 15-month conditional release order to be served in the community.
A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has ordered Graham James Kay (pictured) to be placed under long-term supervision.
Then, in January 2022, Kay was arrested again after harassing a young woman before attacking her inside her apartment complex.
He was jailed for two years for sexual touching without consent and stalking/intimidating with intent to cause fear or physical harm.
However, his sentence was added six months after the Crown appealed against the severity of his prison term.
The court was told Kay stalked his victim through a shopping centre and then from central Sydney to Haymarket, where he followed her to her apartment building and sexually touched her.
As the victim attempted to exit the elevator, Kay reached under her dress and grabbed her vaginal area for several seconds, causing her to scream before fleeing the scene.
He was released in September last year.
Last month, the court lifted a non-publication order on Kay’s name, imposed by a judge in 2020 after the rapist received threats and lost his job and housing.
Following his release, the state attempted to impose a number of monitoring conditions on him, via an extended supervision order (ESO), to keep him under close surveillance.
Kay did not object to the ESO; however, he did object to a proposed condition that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet for the next three years.
He asked that he only be required to wear the electronic monitor for 18 months.
The court was told that a risk assessment report had assessed Kay as “at high risk of sexual reoffending”.
On Thursday, Supreme Court Judge Hament Dhanji ordered Kay to undergo a three-year ESO, including the use of an electronic monitoring bracelet.
Judge Dhanji noted that some of Kay’s past offences included following and stalking his victims and said electronic monitoring could be used to monitor his movements.
“While electronic monitoring failed to deter the defendant from offending in 2022, I would not rule out the possibility that it may have some deterrent effect in the future,” he said in his ruling published on Thursday.
The 36 conditions of the ESO specify that Kay must report to a departmental supervising officer, provide a schedule of his movements if requested, and live at an approved address.
You must not leave New South Wales or surrender your passport and you may not associate with anyone under the age of 18.
You should not hire sex workers without prior approval from a social worker and you should also inform the authorities if you start a sexual relationship or friendship with a woman.
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