This month, Highfield House was saddled with its most notorious guest yet, in the shape of Shabir Ahmed, the 73-year-old ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang.

The leader of the Rochdale grooming gang is pictured for the first time since leaving prison - at a bail hostel just 15 miles from the scene of his vile crimes.

Pakistani-born Ahmed, 73, was living at a hostel in Accrington, Lancashire, but he was forced to leave when furious locals discovered who was living in their midst after his…