Adjudicator Otto Nupponen ruled that Mo-hamed Hagi Mohamud remained "a danger to the public" and ordered him held in custody until his deportation.

Mohamud, 35, ap-peared on a TV screen via a video-conference link from the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge at his 30-day detention review in downtown Vancouver.

Mohamud, who was not represented, sat impassively wearing a red prison jumpsuit with his arms folded, listening to the proceedings.

Lawyer Jas Sandu, representing the CBSA, said Mohamud "will be removed [from Canada] next week to Somalia" and urged the adjudicator to keep him in custody because he is a danger to the community.

Mohamud was convicted of two assaults in Toronto and was under a 2004 deportation order when he violently sexually assaulted a Surrey woman in 2005 as she walked home from a SkyTrain station.

"Your crimes were grievous," said Nupponen. "They deal with violent assaults and violent sexual assaults.

"I agree essentially in all aspects of the decisions that have been rendered that you are a danger to the public. You pose a significant risk in the community."

When asked if he had anything to say, Mohamud said: "God bless Canada."

Mohamud arrived from Somalia in 1989 and was granted refugee status in 1990. He became a permanent resident in 1992 but was ordered deported in June 2006 because of criminal convictions.

Last December, a National Parole Board report noted that Mohamud posed "a very high risk for recidivism, including both general and sexual violence . . . and has demonstrated a continuous record of both sexual and violent offending that was both predatorial and opportunistic, directed against both men and women."

The board said he presents "an undue risk to society" to reoffend.

CBSA spokeswoman Faith St. John confirmed that Mohamud will be removed from Canada next week but would not say on which day.