Kay’s return to prison was welcomed by the women who survived a series of knife-point attacks in the 1990s.
He was nabbed 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 snuck 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, again forcing the full suite of conditions in a bid to keep a short leash on the unrepentant rapist.
But within months, in February this year, he attacked the teenage girl on George Street.
Kay will return to the District Court early next month to begin his sentence proceedings.
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