<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A gang rapist recaptured after spending five days on the run following a hospital escape while under guard by immigration officials has been refused bail in court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Michael Angok, 30, did not apply for bail and it was formally refused by Judge Rachael Wong when the matter was mentioned in Blacktown Local Court on Monday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The matter will return to court on June 5, according to court documents.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Angok, convicted of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl in a Sydney gang rape in 2014, was being held in immigration detention when he escaped from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital on Wednesday, sparking a police manhunt.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officers on Sunday tracked him to Seven Hills, in the city's northwest, where he was arrested after his shoes were allegedly found in a police search of a home in the suburb.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Angok had served his sentence for the offence against the teen, perpetrated in a park in the suburb of Doonside, and was being held in custody as an immigration detainee.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was being transported from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for medical treatment before he escaped.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/gang-rapist-back-behind-bars-after-detention-escape/7c0bcaab-750c-428e-b385-9097d667d05f" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Australian Border Force declined to comment on the matter as it was before the courts, but said the "safety and security of the community remains the absolute priority for the ABF and Department of Home Affairs".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke did not respond to a request for comment.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Opposition home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam said Angok's case showed a slide in security at federal immigration facilities.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Escapes have more than doubled under Labor in only two years," Duniam said in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This points to a system that is clearly not being properly managed."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The issue of crimes committed by immigration detainees is controversial and evokes memories of the so-called NZYQ cohort, non-citizens detained indefinitely as a risk to the community then released after a 2023 High Court ruling deemed the detention unlawful.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The cohort's release grabbed headlines after the coalition seized on alleged reoffending to criticise the government for failing to keep them locked up following the High Court ruling.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>NEVER 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