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A convicted leader in a Rochdale grooming gang is still in the UK - almost a decade after he was meant to be deported to Pakistan.
Qari Abdul Rauf was meant to be kicked out of the country after being jailed for six years for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under 16 and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The ex-taxi driver and Muslim preacher was let out after serving just two-and-a-half years behind bars and went back to his wife and children.
He was stripped of his citizenship in 2015 and was told he would be sent back to his native Pakistan, but launched appeals against it.
He failed to argue it would be against his human rights in a 2022 hearing, then lost another last year.
Pakistan reportedly refuses to allow them to come back and he, along with Adil Khan, another abuser, argue they have renounced their citizenship of the Asian country and would be left stateless.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rochdale-grooming-gang-leader-still-in-uk/
Qari Abdul Rauf was meant to be kicked out of the country after being jailed for six years for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under 16 and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The ex-taxi driver and Muslim preacher was let out after serving just two-and-a-half years behind bars and went back to his wife and children.
He was stripped of his citizenship in 2015 and was told he would be sent back to his native Pakistan, but launched appeals against it.
He failed to argue it would be against his human rights in a 2022 hearing, then lost another last year.
Pakistan reportedly refuses to allow them to come back and he, along with Adil Khan, another abuser, argue they have renounced their citizenship of the Asian country and would be left stateless.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rochdale-grooming-gang-leader-still-in-uk/
