Prue MacSween has called for the deportation of a child rapist who evaded capture for five days after escaping custody. She criticized the fact that he was allowed to stay in the country for over a decade following his heinous crime.
Michael Angok managed to escape on foot from Bankstown Hospital in southwest Sydney last Wednesday. He had been under police guard after being transported from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. His flight from justice ended with his capture on Sunday.
Angok was awaiting deportation due to his role in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl at a park in western Sydney back in 2014.
Media commentator Prue MacSween argued that taxpayers have borne the financial burden of his detention for too long and that Angok should be deported immediately. She expressed outrage at the ease with which a convicted child rapist managed to escape custody.
“He should be sent home tonight. Never to return. We have wasted so much money accommodating this individual. Get him out of here,” she stated emphatically.
Angok was convicted in 2016, leading to the revocation of his visa. After serving time, he was released the following year and subsequently detained at Villawood.
He launched an appeal against his visa cancellation, before it was rejected by a tribunal in 2019.
MacSween argued Angok should never have been allowed to appeal his deportation.
Media commentator Prue MacSween (pictured) said Angok should be deported immediately after taxpayers spent years footing the bill to detain him
Immigration detainee Michael Angok (pictured) spent five days on the run from authorities
‘Our ridiculous laws, pathetic security procedures and inept minister who is in hiding over this disgrace are all to blame,’ she said.
‘Can anyone name any policy this government hasn’t stuffed up?
‘Whether it be immigration/deportation of crims, energy policy, NDIS, the first home buyer scheme that buys houses for non-citizens, years of deficits because of big spending, taxpayer dollars to pay for childcare for millionaires … the list goes on.
‘Inept morons running this country. We get what we vote for.’
In February 2016, Angok was convicted of four counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a person over 14 years and under 16 years and sentenced to an aggregate term of imprisonment of 45 months, with a two-year non-parole period.
The teenage girl was walking home alone through Doonside’s Bill Colbourne Reserve when she was sexually assaulted by four males of African appearance.
One of the men assaulted the teen before pinning her to the footpath to allow the others to assault her over a 30-minute period, police said at the time.
The court heard that during the rape, there was talk about the four male offenders ‘taking turns’.
The convicted gang rapist escaped from Bankstown Hospital on Wednesday morning
Michael Angok was one of four males involved in the late-night attack on the girl at the reserve
Angok, then 18, was the second man to have sexual intercourse with the victim, which occurred while another offender put his penis in her mouth.
The court also heard that during the incident, the victim heard one of the men say, ‘Give me a piece of that’.
Angok was released from custody in 2017 after serving a minimum non-parole period of two years and had been detained at Villawood for some time after his visa was revoked while behind bars.
It is unclear when he was expected to be deported from Australia.
In early 2019, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld a decision to cancel Angok’s visa, ‘given the nature of the applicant’s sexual offending against a minor in company of others’.
The judgement stated Angok, then nine, arrived in Australia with his family on refugee visas in 2005 after leaving South Sudan. He has not departed Australia since.
It also detailed how Angok’s police record as a minor involved incidents of violence, drug use and failure to comply with police instructions.
Angok was arrested in Seven Hills at about 2.45pm on Sunday after he broke out of the hospital.
He is due to face Blacktown Court on Monday.
