An illegal Somalian immigrant who kidnapped a schoolgirl weeks after being released early from a jail sentence for rape should have been deported three years ago.

Abdi Waise, 28, was served a deportation order in 2013 while in prison serving an eight-year sentence for the vicious rape and throttling of a 21-year-old woman he snatched off the streets in 2008.

On his release in 2014, he was taken to an immigration removal centre, but he was later freed when a government moratorium on deportations to his war-torn homeland came into force following concerns that Somalia was too dangerous to send foreign criminals.

CCTV footage shows Waise harassing one of the five girls he attempted to kidnap in a two-and-a-half hour period in North London

Abdi Waise, was jailed yesterday for 12 years at Wood Green Crown Court, London

Just three weeks later, the drug dealer posed as a policeman in order to kidnap a schoolgirl and attempt to abduct four others aged between 11 and 14 over the space of just two and half hours.

He followed his victims as they were walking to school, offering children as young as 10 drugs and pretending to be an officer in order to molest them.

Yesterday a judge jailed Waise for 12 years, describing him as a sexual predator ‘hunting for a child’ who represented ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’.

Judge Witold Pawlak said the career criminal, who has a long list of convictions for robbery, theft and drugs dating back to his teens after he came to Britain aged 10, was dangerous.

He recommended his deportation, but said he could not order his removal as his previous deportation order had been stayed.

The judge said: ‘Based on the facts of this case you represent every parent’s worst nightmare.

‘In my judgment it is inevitable that you will carry out further offences and it is for that reason that I must consider you are a dangerous offender.

‘You displayed persistence, deviousness and cunning to achieve you objective of kidnapping a child.

‘You were hunting for a child- that is self-evident. Your behaviour demonstrates no empathy for your fellow human beings.

‘By offering some children drugs, you have shown you have no standard of morality.

‘What was your motivation if you had succeeded? In my conclusion it was substantially sexual.’

He added: ‘Whether you are deported or not is a matter for the Home Office or an immigration tribunal should you appeal.

‘I want to say that I am intending to make a recommendation for deportation.’

On January 18 this year Waise approached a number of children as they walked to school in Hornsey, north London.

He first struck at 7.30am when he chased a 10-year-old boy, offering him £10 and cannabis if he went with him.

Wais followed his victims as they were walking to school, offering children as young as 10 drugs and pretending to be an officer in order to molest them

Then he stopped a schoolgirl and tried to search her bag claiming to be a police officer.

He followed her until the girl pointed him out to her parents.

Minutes later he grabbed another girl by her wrist, telling her he was a police officer looking for his daughter, even though the feckless father-of-one has never had any contact with his 10-year-old child.

At 8.10am, Waise blocked the pathway of two girls and accused them of buying drugs.

He attempted to lure them a nearby garden so he could search them, but they ran off.

Waise then tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl, putting his arm around her and telling her she should come to his house for breakfast to look at some photos.

He grabbed her bag and coat, but she managed to run away.

At 9.10am he grabbed another girl by the shoulder at a bus stop, but she managed to get away.

Waise then targeted a group of schoolboys, offering them £20 if they could get girls to take liquid isopropyl nitrate, known as poppers, which he said would make girls faint so ‘you can do what you want to them’.

The pervert was only caught after police stopped him and searched him suspecting he had drugs, only to find he was carrying two bottles of poppers.

Waise denied kidnap, claiming he was a drug dealer and was on his way to meet his supplier after selling all his drugs for £240 the night earlier.

He claimed he had got lost and asked the children for directions.

Waise had claimed he had got lost and asked the children for directions on the way to meet his drug supplier

But a jury convicted him at Wood Green Crown Court last week of kidnap, four counts of attempted kidnap and supply of class B drugs.

After the verdicts, it was revealed Waise had been served a deportation order in 2013 following his conviction in 2009 for throttling and raping a stranger in Edmonton, North London in August 2008.

Following the deportation order he was detained until he was granted bail by an immigration judge in July 2014 due to a government moratorium on deportations to Somalia.

Just two months later he was rearrested for breaching his bail conditions, but was released again on December 2, 2015 just weeks before the kidnap.

Waise has previously been charged on two separate occasions with sexual offences including an attempted rape that involved throttling but in both cases the charges were dropped.

Yesterday a judge ordered a five year extension order to ensure his supervision after he has served his sentence.

He was also banned indefinitely from being around any children unaccompanied.

Earlier this year it emerged that Somalia, which is ranked the world’s most corrupt country by Transparency International, an international non-governmental organisation, has received £583million in aid from Britain.

Officials said they will continue to pursue the removal of Waise from the UK.

A moratorium on deportations to Somalia has now been lifted and removals to the war-torn country are being considered on a case by case basis.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘This Government puts the rights of the British public before those of criminals, and foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.’