Sunday 27 November 2022 02:56 PM Bondi Beast rapist Keith Simms' victims reveal the bizarre words he told them ... trends now
Immediately after holding a knife to the throat of helpless women and brutally sexually assaulting them, serial predator Keith Simms would utter the words 'I love you' and 'Thank you', his victims have revealed.
Simms, who was dubbed the 'Bondi Beast', has been linked to 31 sexual assaults in Sydney's eastern suburbs between 1985 to 2001.
Police had used DNA technology to identify him this month but the positive identification came nine months too late as Simms died of kidney failure in February, aged 66.
Two of his victims, Jennifer, 69, and Linda, 52, recalled the horrific moment they came face-to-face with one of Australia's worst rapists in an interview with Nine's 60 Minutes.
Keith Simms (pictured), who was dubbed the 'Bondi Beast', was a serial rapist who preyed on women in Sydney's eastern suburbs from 1985 to 2001
Jennifer was a community liaison nurse and was sleeping in her staff accommodation at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick when she was attacked in 1987.
Simms, wearing a baclava, entered her room from a window and threatened her with a knife before raping her.
Jennifer remembers Simms saying 'I love you', as he left, calling the words 'filthy, dirty and disgusting'.
Linda, who was sexually assaulted in 1994, was at the Coogee Bay Hotel and walked home along a coastal track when Simms ran up behind her wearing a balaclava and holding a knife.
After the clifftop attack he said, 'Thank you', which was really disturbing,' Linda said.
'I think it just demonstrates his level of depravity to say that to somebody.'
She deduced that Simms had seen her at the Coogee Bay Hotel and followed her from the venue once she left.
