The North Shore Rapist, Graham James Kay, has pleaded guilty to sexually touching a teenage girl in a pharmacy in Sydney’s CBD this year, when her friend bravely tried to stop him from exiting the store.
The 73-year-old was on his third extended supervision order (ESO) after his repeated offending against young women spanning three decades, which has continued despite years in prison.
North Shore Rapist Graham James Kay (pictured in 2018) pleaded guilty to attacking a 16-year-old girl in Sydney’s CBD.
In February, Kay walked into Chemist Warehouse in the Sydney CBD at 6pm and walked around the store for about 25 minutes before a 16-year-old girl and her friend, who were wearing school uniforms, walked in.
Kay stalked the girls and walked to the front entrance, where he watched them purchase items.
As the teenagers exited the store, Kay put his left hand under the victim’s skirt and assaulted her. The victim turned around and said “Don’t f—ing touch me” and her friend said: “Don’t touch my friend.”
The pair alerted security, telling them to “Get that guy in the turquoise shirt”. The girls pleaded: “Can someone do something?”
Kay walked to the back of the store and took off his hat, and the victim’s friend continued asking the store employees for help but they didn’t respond, court documents say.
“[The victim’s friend] then stood in front of the offender in an attempt to stop him leaving, but he continued past her, pushing with his shoulder and out of the store,” the documents state.
At this point, an employee grabbed a security guard, who chased Kay out of the store. He managed to catch up with him and brought him back into the store, where he took a photo of his ID.
Kay said he “wanted to talk to that young girl” and apologise, adding: “I just walked past – it was an accident.”
When the victim said she didn’t want to talk to him, he tried to get closer to her. But the 16-year-old’s friend and the security guard “ushered him away”.
Six hours later, riot police arrested him in his Blacktown apartment.
On Thursday, Kay pleaded guilty to sexually touching another person without consent and multiple counts of failing to comply with an ESO.
Kay in the late 1990s following his arrest for attacking multiple women in Sydney.Credit: Nine
Of the four charges of breaching a supervision, court documents show several relate to contact with sex workers, including exchanging hundreds of messages with one and visiting another in Epping, telling authorities he was there for a job interview.
He is to remain in custody ahead of his sentencing in the District Court next month.
Kay’s return to prison was welcomed by the women who survived a series of knife-point attacks in the 1990s.
He was arrested in a 1997 police operation that caught him driving around looking for women and following them in Macquarie Park, Glebe and Epping. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Since being paroled in 2015, Kay has not rehabilitated and instead continued to attack women while trying to hide his identity from the public.
In 2017, he was placed on an ESO which is the strictest supervision regime a court can impose on a person outside prison walls.
In 2018, the serial rapist had his monitoring tag removed. Within weeks, he walked into a Woolworths in Sydney’s west and kissed a teenage girl on the cheek.
Three days later, his supervisors discovered he had a sex worker in his home – a breach of his conditions. He was back on the street within months and, in 2020, was put on a watered-down ESO.
Kay’s name was suppressed by a judge to help him reintegrate into society.
But in 2022, Kay stalked a woman who was shopping in the CBD, followed her home and into her unit tower.
“As he exited the lift, he placed his right hand under the complainant’s dress, placing it over her underwear and touching her genitalia. She took evasive action, screamed and managed to gain entry to her apartment without [Kay],” a Supreme Court judge would later say.
Kay was imprisoned and then released again in September 2023.
Last August, the Herald successfully fought the suppression order over his identity and unmasked him again.
The Supreme Court hit Kay with a third ESO. But in February this year, he attacked the teenage girl on George Street.
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