Overview
- Greater Manchester Police said Khan was not at his registered address on October 21 and inquiries established he had left the country.
- The Home Office confirmed he is subject to a deportation order and stated he will not be allowed to return to the UK.
- Khan, a member of the nine-man Rochdale grooming gang, was convicted in 2012, sentenced to eight years, and released on licence in 2016.
- He and others mounted repeated legal challenges against removal as earlier efforts were complicated by the stripping of British passports in 2015 and renunciation of Pakistani citizenship.
- Authorities have pursued wider returns as direct Manchester–Islamabad flights resumed this year, while other convicted offenders such as Abdul Rauf remain in the UK.