Rochdale’s MP has called for an inquiry into how members of the borough’s infamous grooming gang which avoided deportation for years were able to walk its streets – and bump into their victims.
It was confirmed this week that two members of the Rochdale grooming gang, Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf, had lost their appeal against deportation from the UK, following a seven-year-long battle in the courts.
Both men, now aged 51 and 52 respectively, were among nine gang members jailed in 2012 for a catalogue of child sex offences. Khan, then in his 40s, impregnated one girl, refusing to accept the child was his until a DNA test was done.
