Infamous ‘North Shore Rapist’ is charged after allegedly touching a 16-year-old girl in Sydney’s CBD

The notorious ‘North Shore Rapist’ is back behind bars after he allegedly assaulted a teenage girl at a pharmacy in central Sydney. 

Graham James Kay allegedly sexually touched a 16-year-old girl in a pharmacy on George Street in Sydney’s CBD around 6pm on Friday.

Police were told the girl did not know her alleged aggressor and investigations led them to execute a search warrant at a unit on Oxford Street in Blacktown at 1am Saturday.

There officers found Kay, 73, where he was swiftly arrested and taken to Blacktown police station.

Kay has been charged with sexually touching another person without consent. 

He previously pleaded guilty to a series of armed rapes and attacks on eight women and girls on Sydney’s North Shore in the 1990s, for which he spent 18 years behind bars.

One of the rapist’s victims warned officers Kay would never be rehabilitated after he was allowed to return to his local community in 2023. 

Prior to that Kay had reoffended in both 2018 and 2022 while under police supervision.

At the time of Kay’s reoffending he was on an extended supervision order (ESO) with an ankle monitor.

In 2018 he kissed a 16-year-old girl in a supermarket and in 2022, he stalked a woman around Sydney before indecently assaulting her inside her unit building.

Both incidents occurred while authorities were supposedly monitoring him. 

Under the directions of his order at the time however, Kay was not required to alert authorities to his plans or movements. 

He was quietly re-released following the assaults in September 2023. 

One of Kay’s victims said he was sick and ‘won’t get better’.

‘This has to be the catalyst for harder laws,’ she told the Herald Sun. 

Experts agreed that Kay would likely reoffend, testifying against him in a Sydney court in 2024. 

Forensic psychologist Marcelo Rodriguez diagnosed Kay with ‘sexual sadism disorder’.

The disorder is a psychiatric condition characterised by someone experiencing sexual arousal from inflicting pain or suffering on others. 

Symptoms include intense sexual fantasies about inflicting pain on others, intense urges to cause pain on others and acting on these urges, as well as experiencing significant impairment in social aspects of life.

Mr Rodriguez said Kay’s condition was chronic and likely linked to his relapsing and offending despite it remaining dormant ‘in controlled environments’. 

A second psychologist, Michael Davis, believed Kay’s need to assault women was ‘an attempt to reassure himself of his masculinity and coerce intimacy from his victims’.

Based on these testimonies Supreme Court Justice Hament Dhanji extended the strict supervision order over Kay until September 2027 prior to this latest alleged offence.

Kay fronted Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday and did not apply for bail. 

He will face court again on Monday.