Aldi Khan, 54, has also used the ECHR to avoid being deported while fellow convict Abdul Aziz, known in the rape gang as ‘The Master’, also managed to avoid being deported following his release from jail.
‘What if he popped up on the doorstep of a girl he abused?’
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.
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.
One disgusted mother, who lives just a few doors away, said: ‘Nobody can believe that monster is still here, after what he did to those young girls.
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.
He is among nine members of the Rochdale grooming gang who were jailed for raping and trafficking young children across England in 2012.
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.
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‘It’s disgusting. What is the country coming to? Why is he still here?
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.
Rauf was told he would be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving two and half years of a six-year prison sentence.
‘I can’t believe he was delivering takeaways to peoples’ houses, just imagine it – you are one of his victims and you open the door to get your meal and he’s there.
‘He walks backwards and forwards down the street without a care in the world, past children and everything.
Other members of the Rochdale gang have also successfully avoided being deported.
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’.
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Rauf with three other members of the Rochdale grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed (top left), Adil Khan (top right) and Abdul Aziz (bottom left)
The ringleader of an Asian grooming gang 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.
‘He was delivering for a takeaway app last year. He had the sign on the side of his car.
The Home Office has been contacted for comment.
