Furious neighbours of Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Qari Rauf say they are terrified to let their children out of sight - after discovering he's still living freely on their street, having used a legal loophole to dodge deportation.
The convicted paedophile, 55, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for raping and trafficking vulnerable girls across northern England in a case that shocked the country.
Rauf was told he would be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving just two-and-a-half years of a six-year prison sentence – but he remains in the UK more than a decade later.
He was supposed to be deported after his release, but avoided removal by destroying his passport and claiming to be stateless.
Despite losing an appeal against deportation in 2018, he has never been sent back - with Pakistan refusing to accept him without valid travel documents.
