{"id":301549,"date":"2025-01-08T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301549"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:13:14","slug":"revealed-rochdale-grooming-gang-ringleaders-very-comfortable-life-in-britain-a-decade-after-he-was-released-and-told-hed-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301549","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Rochdale grooming gang ringleader’s VERY comfortable life in Britain a decade after he was released and told he’d be deported"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Thompson \u2013 The Daily Mail Jan 7, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The ringleader of an Asian grooming gang<\/strong><\/a> is still living in the town where he committed his horrific crimes – almost a decade after he was released from jail and told he would be deported.<\/p>\n

Qari Abdul Rauf is walking around Rochdale ‘like he owns the place’ according to his shocked neighbours, who cannot understand why he has not yet been kicked out of the country.<\/p>\n

MailOnline can reveal the 55-year-old has been working for a takeaway delivery app, prompting fears he might meet one of his victims during the course of his work.<\/p>\n

He is among nine members of the Rochdale grooming gang who were jailed for raping and trafficking young children across England in 2012<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rauf was told he would be deported to Pakistan<\/strong><\/a> in 2014 after serving two and half years of a six-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n

The presence of the former taxi driver in the town where he carried out his crimes adds fuel to the fire over demands that the Government hold a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.<\/p>\n

Keir Starmer<\/strong><\/a> is embroiled in a bitter war of words with Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a>, who used his X platform to launch a war of words against the Prime Minister<\/strong><\/a> saying he had failed to prosecute the gangs when he was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister was accused of ‘smearing’ those who have demanded another inquiry into the rape of thousands of young girls by predominantly Pakistani men by calling them ‘Far Right’<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also accused the Tories, who have backed calls for a new inquiry, of jumping on the bandwagon of campaigners to gain attention.<\/p>\n

Musk, a close confidante of the new US President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man, had also called Jess Philips, the safeguarding minister, a ‘ rape genocide apologist’ for rejecting a call for an inquiry into grooming gangs in Oldham.<\/p>\n

Much to the anger of campaigners, Ms Phillips instructed Oldham Council in October to launch its own inquiry into sexual exploitation in the town similar to inquiries set up in Rochdale and Telford.<\/p>\n

A multi-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse gave its recommendations to the previous government in\u00a02022.<\/p>\n

Rauf, who was stripped of his UK citizenship, was told he would be sent back to Pakistan following his release in November 2014.<\/p>\n

Immigration Tribunal judges have twice rejected his appeal against deportation in 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n

His lawyers have argued he is ‘stateless’ having renounced his Pakistani citizenship and deportation would breach his right to private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Yet still Rauf remains. His neighbours in Rochdale are disgusted that he is still allowed to live in the same town where he carried out his vile crimes.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Qari Abdul Rauf is walking around Rochdale ‘like he owns the place’ say neighbours, who cannot understand why he has not yet been kicked out of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":301552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301553,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301549\/revisions\/301553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}