Rochdale grooming gang leader ‘throws PARTIES at UK home on street full of kids' after Pakistan refused to take him back
Up to 47 girls, some as young as 12, were trafficked and raped by the grooming gang
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A VILE Rochdale grooming gang ringleader has reportedly been throwing wild parties at his UK home near kids after Pakistan refused to take him back.
Qari Adil Rauf lost an appeal against deportation in 2018 but has never been sent back to Pakistan.
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Qari Adil Rauf now lives in the same area he committed his vile crimes
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He served just two and a half years of a six year prison sentence
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Rauf, 55, was among nine men jailed in 2012 for raping and trafficking young girls across the north of England.
Up to 47 girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped across Rochdale during a two-year reign of terror.
Rauf was due to be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving just two years and six months of his six-year sentence.
He has avoided deportation by destroying his passport and claiming he is stateless, Pakistan has refused to accept the convicted paedophile without valid travel documents.
The fiend remains in Rochdale where his victims are forced to live alongside him.
It has now emerged the fiend has been throwing wild parties at his home with large numbers of people turning up.
Neighbours say they have been left terrified to let their kids play outside and remain constantly vigilant of their movements.
Rauf now lives in a terraced house under extra protection with neighbours claiming he has a panic button linked directly to Greater Manchester Police in his home.
Residents living on the same street have said the ringleader of the grooming gang throws parties with large numbers of people turning up.
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Angie Harrison, 45, a mum of two girls aged seven and eight, told the Mail Online: "He has loads of people there, having parties and we don't like the look of the people who come.
"We are back-to-back with his house. I don't like letting the kids in the garden. I have told them all about him. It is disgusting.
"It is horrible. It is awful when you have to sit out watching your kids. We're the ones watching over our own kids like prison guards."
Rauf reportedly lives just two doors down from a childminder who said she would pay for travel documents if it meant he was removed.
Residents say they are constantly reminded of grooming gangs when they pass by the vile paedophile's home.
Rauf now lives in the same area he committed his crimes with victims forced to see him while he is out and about.
The paedophile has been spotted being chauffeured around by his son by angry locals who say there is nothing they can do to get rid of him.
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Rauf was convicted alongside nine other men
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He allegedly throws parties at his home with dozens of guests turning up
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Residents say they are surprised the paedophile hasn't been targeted by locals with one claiming he would smash the vile man's windows himself.
Neighbours have been told by cops not to say anything to Rauf as he has 'done his time' and are reportedly removed by police if they stray to close to his home.
One local claimed they shouted "paedo" at the vile man if their windows are open but Rauf just shrugs it off.
Lena Carter, 64, who has lived on the street for nearly 30 years, told the Mail Online that her daughters used to play in Rauf's back garden.
She added: "I understand he has been banned from the mosque. He walks around in Western clothing now unless his friends are around.
"What can we do to get him out if the law says he can stay? The police will turn up and remove you if you are near his house.
"They tell us to leave him alone. I don't think any of them work apart from the son who sometimes runs the father around in his car."
The news comes after it was revealed Pakistan is refusing to take Rauf and his joint ringleader Adil Khan back despite the UK ordering their deportation.
A Pakistani official claimed it would be "extremely difficult' to allow in such dangerous criminals.
The battle has been further complicated by Rauf and Khan renouncing their Pakistani citizenship.
They both exploited a loophole by ripping up their passports, becoming "stateless", which can block a deportation.
Rauf and fellow gang leader Khan, who got a 13-year-old girl pregnant, lost a lengthy fight in 2018 against deportation alongside a third member of the gang, Abdul Aziz.
They subsequently launched another appeal- insisting the order breaches their human rights as they both have wives and children in the UK.
Their appeals were rejected but both have remained in Britain ever since.
The subject of grooming gangs has been thrust back into the spotlight this week following a bombshell report by Baroness Casey.
The scathing review found councils, police and the Home Office repeatedly "shied away" from dealing with uncomfortable questions on the ethnicity of rapists who targeted young girls.
Rauf and Khan were ringleaders of a prolific grooming gang in Rochdale, which has been plagued by sexual exploitation.
Khan got a 13-year-old girl pregnant and trafficked another girl, 15, to others - using violence when she complained.
He was sentenced to eight years in 2012 and released on licence four years later.
Dad-of-five Rauf trafficked a 15-year-old girl and raped her in a secluded area before taking her to a flat in Rochdale where others had sex with her.
He was caged for six years and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence.
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