Serial rapist heading back to Malaysia on Sunday

Selva Kumar shown via video at a detention review hearing in Toronto on Monday. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star)

PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian serial rapist convicted in Canada, suspected of assaulting as many as 1,000 women and girls, has been ordered to be deported now that his 24-year prison sentence is complete.

Selva Kumar Subbiah, 56, is being held in custody until Sunday when he will be accompanied back to his home country by three guards from the Canada Border Services Agency, according to The Toronto Star.