{"id":601747,"date":"2026-04-12T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:05:13","slug":"convicted-gang-rapist-michael-angok-charged-five-days-after-escaping-custody-while-at-sydney-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601747\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted gang rapist Michael Angok charged five days after escaping custody while at Sydney hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

A convicted gang rapist who escaped from custody while at a hospital in Sydney’s south-west has been arrested and charged after five days on the run.<\/p>\n

Michael Angok fled Bankstown Hospital on foot shortly after 9:30am on Wednesday. He had been taken there from Villawood Detention Centre for treatment.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police (AFP) were granted an arrest warrant on Thursday and Strike Force Tolquin was set up.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, NSW Police said that the 30-year-old had been arrested at Seven Hills on the corner of Hartley Road and Terminus Road about 3:45pm.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Angok was taken to Blacktown police station. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n

Before that, at about 3pm, AFP and local officers had gone to a property on nearby June Street.<\/p>\n

“It will be alleged that police observed a pair of shoes belonging to the 30-year-old man at the front of the home where a crime scene was declared,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Angok was taken to Blacktown police station, where he was charged on an outstanding warrant with “detainee escape from immigration detention facility”.<\/p>\n

Bail was refused, and he is due to appear at Blacktown Local Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

Investigations are ongoing into Angok’s whereabouts over the past few days and if he had received help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ongoing search<\/p>\n

After his escape, specialist units including the Raptor Squad, PolAir, the Dog Unit and the Operations Support Group were deployed to search for him.<\/p>\n

On Gallipoli Road, near the hospital, authorities found some of his personal items, which had been dumped. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"an<\/p>\n

Police said Angok was arrested in Seven Hills. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The community, however, was only made aware of the incident the following day.<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Brett Van Akker said at the time that they did not want to alert the community prematurely and that “sometimes the public can hinder our investigation”.<\/p>\n

Convicted of sexually assaulting 14yo<\/p>\n

Angok was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a Doonside park in February 2014, alongside two other men.<\/p>\n

The victim told police she was walking through the park when a man approached her, before overpowering and sexually assaulting her.<\/p>\n

Angok was released from custody in 2017 after serving a minimum non-parole period of two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted gang rapist who escaped from custody while at a hospital in Sydney’s south-west has been arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[120892,64,63,29622,106585,293265,290602,44,4277,293266],"class_list":{"0":"post-601747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-arrest-warrant","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-federal-police","12":"tag-bankstown-hospital","13":"tag-hartley-road-and-terminus-road","14":"tag-michael-angok","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nsw-police","17":"tag-villawood-detention-centre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}