Members of the Rochdale grooming gang are still living in the town a decade after preying on girls as young as twelve, the Manchester Evening News understands.

One woman who was abused by the gang, wet herself and had to run into a shop after spotting her attacker in the town centre, according to locals.

Another victim bumped into her abuser in a nightclub only last week, it has been claimed.

Shabir Ahmed, 66, Qari Abdul Rauf, 50, Abdul Aziz, 48 and Adil Khan, 49, were among nine men convicted in 2012 of a catalogue of serious sex offences against vulnerable victims in Rochdale.

As the only groomers to have dual UK-Pakistani citizenship, they were at risk of being deported back to Pakistan - but none of the four appear to have been deported or are facing deportation.

Ahmed, known as "Daddy" in the gang, is still serving a 22-year jail term for rape but Rauf is back living at his home address in Rochdale and Aziz has also been seen in the town, locals say.

Khan's exact whereabouts are not known.

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The Home Office will not say if a decision has been made to deport any of the four.

A spokesperson said: "We do not routinely comment on individual cases."

Maggie Oliver, the detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police and turned whistle-blower over the botched Rochdale inquiry said the decision not to deport the men meant victims of the gang had been "failed again."

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Ms Oliver said: "It doesn't surprise me they won't be straight with their answers after all this time because they don't want a public backlash.

"Ultimately the truth does have a way of coming out. The process most of these girls have been through has led them to expect very, very little from the authorities.

"They expect nothing and are not disappointed. They have been failed again and again and again.

"They do see some of these men around Rochdale on a fairly regular basis.

"It is really distressing for them, there's nothing that the girls can do. It's actually disgraceful."

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In 2016, then-home secretary Theresa May ruled it would be "conducive to the public good" to deprive the four of the right to remain in the UK.

They then fought, and lost, a long legal battle against deprivation of UK citizenship, losing a final Court of Appeal ruling in July last year.

Eight judges, including the Master of the Rolls Lord Justice Sales, have now heard their case and upheld rulings all four should lose UK citizenship rights.

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Former taxi driver Aziz, a father-of-three, regularly took his young victim to different flats around Rochdale, where she was plied with cannabis and vodka and coerced into sex with men who paid him cash.

Referred to as "The Master" by the gang, he played a "leading role" in the grooming.

Jailed for nine years in May 2012, he was released in December 2015 after serving three years and seven months.

Rauf, a father-of-five, trafficked a 15-year-old girl for sex, driving her to secluded areas to have sex with her in his taxi and ferry her to a flat in Rochdale where he and others had sex with her.

He was jailed for six years and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence.

A neighbour told the Press Association he has a night-time driving job.

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Khan got a girl, 13, pregnant but denied he was the father then met another girl, 15, and trafficked her to others using violence when she complained.

He was sentenced to eight years, released in 2016 and was last known to be living in Manchester.

Billy Howarth, founder of Parents Against Grooming UK in Rochdale, said: "We demand an explanation as to why they have not been deported.

"That was one of the promises, that these men would be removed from the country so they would not have to set eyes on them again.

"People are going mad over it, especially the people who live on the same streets with them."

A spokeswoman for current Home Secretary, Rochdale-born Sajid Javid, has been approached for comment.

Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd said: "I am as shocked about this as everyone else is in Rochdale, and the wider country.

"When the Home Office took on and won the capacity to take British citizenship from them, we were right to assume that this would be followed by deportation.

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"These crimes were at the most serious level and victims deserve better. I would ask Sajid Javid to take urgent action. I want them to be deported."