North Shore rapist charged after allegedly assaulting girl in Sydney’s CBD
Notorious North Shore rapist Graham Kay has been arrested for allegedly sexually touching a teenage girl in Sydney’s city centre just months after women who survived his violent attacks warned he would never be rehabilitated.
Police were called to a pharmacy on George Street in Sydney around 6pm on Friday, where they were told a 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually touched by a man not known to her.
Graham Kay in 2018.Credit:
Around 1am on Saturday, investigators and the riot squad executed a search warrant at a unit on Oxford Street in Blacktown, where a 73-year-old man was arrested and taken to Blacktown police station.
He was charged with sexually touching another person without consent and refused bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court on Saturday.
The Herald has confirmed the man’s identity as Graham James Kay, who spent two decades in prison for a series of violent rapes in the 1990s and returned to the community in 2023 despite reoffending in 2018 and 2022.
The first attack was a 16-year-old girl Kay kissed in a supermarket; the second, he stalked a woman around Sydney and indecently assaulted her in her unit building. Both times authorities were supposedly monitoring him.
He was on an extended supervision order (ESO) with an ankle monitor at the time, but the State of NSW did not require Kay to tell them his plans and movements.
Kay was quietly re-released in September 2023 and was, until Saturday morning, walking the streets while being electronically monitored. Last year, the Herald won a legal challenge to have Kay’s suppression order lifted.
One survivor, who spoke in court last year in favour of keeping her attacker under strict monitoring, told the Herald on Saturday that Kay was sick and “won’t get better”.
