Members of the Rochdale grooing gang who have dual UK-Pakistani citizenship have still not been deported (Picture: PA)

The victims of the Rochdale grooming gang say they have been ‘failed again’ after it emerged their attackers have not been deported despite judges ruling they should lose their British citizenship.

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 sex offences against girls as young as 12.

Following their conviction eight judges upheld rulings that all four – who each have dual UK-Pakistani citizenship – should lose their UK citizenship rights.

However, since then none of the four appear to have been deported or be facing deportation.


Ahmed, known as ‘Daddy’ in the gang, is still serving a 22-year jail term for rape.

Shabir Ahmed, 66, the ringleader of a Rochdale child sex grooming gang is serving a 22 year prison sentence (Picture: PA)

But Rauf is reportedly back living at his home address in Rochdale and Aziz has also been seen in the town, locals have said.



Khan’s exact whereabouts are not known.

Victims of the grooming scandal have reported bumping into their attackers in the street after their release from prison.

People in Rochdale say one woman who was abused as a child wet herself and ran into a shop after spotting her attacker without warning, while another victim bumped into her abuser in a nightclub.

The Home Office will not say whether a decision has been made to deport any of the four and a spokesperson said they would not comment on individual cases.

Qari Abdul Rauf, 50 ,was jailed for six years and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence (Picture: Enterprise)

Abdul Aziz, 48, Jailed for nine years in May 2012, he was released in December 2015 after serving three years and seven months (Picture: PA)

Maggie Oliver, the detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police over the botched Rochdale inquiry, 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.

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

Judges have noted the decision to strip an individual of UK citizenship, called a deprivation order, does not automatically lead to deportation order.

Lawyers said it is probable the four will invoke the European Convention on Human Rights to argue their right to a family life would be impinged if they were removed from the UK.

Adil Khan, 49, He was sentenced to eight years, released in 2016 and was last known to be living in Manchester (Picture: PA)

Ms Oliver added: ‘Once you commit these horrific offences your human rights should come second.

‘It makes me really angry and it’s really upsetting whey you think what they have done that they even have any rights.’

For two years from early 2008, girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped in rooms above takeaway shops and ferried to different flats in taxis where cash was handed to their abusers for other men to rape and sexually assault the girls.

Police said as many as 47 girls were groomed.

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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.’

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