Overview

• Qari Abdul Rauf was convicted in 2012 as a ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang that abused 47 underage girls.
• He renounced his Pakistani nationality after his 2014 release to claim statelessness and evade a Home Office deportation order.
• Rauf has secured £285,000 in taxpayer-funded legal aid to pursue successive appeals against his removal.
• Villagers in Charhoi report he financed the construction of a new house there, undermining his claim of severed ties with Pakistan.
• Rochdale residents say they remain terrified to let their children out of sight as he continues living locally and working as a delivery driver.