On Monday, 19 October, in the New South Wales District Court, one of eight women attacked read her impact statement to Glenn Gary Cameron, 62. ABC: he pleaded guilty last month to 13 offences. Sentence is listed for December. That is not today’s term of imprisonment.

The woman, 24 in 1992, was walking home in Surry Hills. She told him: “I was terrified, you had a knife.” “You didn’t kill me, but you killed a big part of me, my trust in others.” Since then she has lived in a “continuous state of anxiety, panic [and] terror” — her words, read in court. Her name is not in this text.

The attacks, 1991–1993, at Moore Park and in the inner west. The press then called him the “Night Stalker” or “Moore Park Rapist”. He was caught after a DNA match, arrested in 2024 at Sydney airport. That is the investigation; guilt on the 13 counts is his plea, not a prison sentence.

Cameron, a former funeral director and hospital wardsman, spoke even though his lawyer had said he would not give evidence. “I committed heinous crimes.” Why he never went to police: he did not have the courage. Judge John Pickering cut across the defence when it invoked a troubled childhood and drugs to cut his moral culpability. We have not written a diagnosis of his childhood.

On another 14 counts — including aggravated sexual assault and detaining a person for advantage — he has entered no plea; they will be taken into account at sentence. These are not 27 convictions judged today.

Nine/AAP: the same hearing, the same apologies. The sentence remains for December. Until then, a guilty plea, not a sentence.

Image: Moore Park, Sydney, 13 March 2025, Xyxyzyz, CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The park, not the courtroom.

Sources consulted: ‘I hate who I am’: Serial rapist speaks after 30 years — Nine; Victim of man known as 'Moore Park Rapist' lived in 'continuous state of anxiety' since attack, court told — ABC News.