{"id":722311,"date":"2026-04-12T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/722311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:09:17","slug":"convicted-gang-rapist-michael-angok-arrested-five-days-after-escaping-custody-while-at-sydney-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/722311\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted gang rapist Michael Angok arrested five days after escaping custody while at Sydney hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A convicted gang rapist who escaped from custody while at a hospital in Sydney&#8217;s south-west has been arrested by NSW Police after five days on the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australian Federal Police were granted an arrest warrant on Thursday and Strike Force Tolquin was set up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Sunday, NSW Police said in a statement 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<blockquote class=\"EmphasisedText_quote__TE6kn\"><p>&#8220;He was taken to Blacktown Police Station where inquiries are continuing,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;No further information is available at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"an aerial view of Hartley Road and Terminus Road seven hill\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f5d83c2e0bac6ef5d92d02863cce5d92.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police said Angok was arrested in Seven Hills. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Gallipoli Road, near the hospital, authorities found some of his personal items,<strong> <\/strong>which had been dumped. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The community, however, was only made aware of the incident the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detective Superintendent Brett Van Akker said at the time that they did not want to alert the community prematurely and that &#8220;sometimes the public can hinder our investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Convicted of sexually assaulting 14yo<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Angok was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a Doonside park in February 2014, alongside two other men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The victim told police she was walking through the park when a man approached her, before overpowering and sexually assaulting her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Angok was released from custody in 2017 after serving a minimum non-parole period of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted gang rapist who escaped from custody while at a hospital in Sydney&#8217;s south-west has been arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":715329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42356,4740,112683,17952,299561,297384,50,9309,299562],"class_list":{"0":"post-722311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arrest-warrant","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-federal-police","11":"tag-bankstown-hospital","12":"tag-hartley-road-and-terminus-road","13":"tag-michael-angok","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nsw-police","16":"tag-villawood-detention-centre"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116390721404497491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}