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
DAILY MAIL ONLINE | Published January 7, 2025
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.
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.
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.
Rauf was told he would be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving two and half years of a six-year prison sentence.
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.
Keir Starmer is embroiled in a bitter war of words with Elon Musk, who used his X platform to launch a war of words against the Prime Minister saying he had failed to prosecute the gangs when he was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
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’.
He also accused the Tories, who have backed calls for a new inquiry, of jumping on the bandwagon of campaigners to gain attention.
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.
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.
A multi-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse gave its recommendations to the previous government in 2022.
Rauf, who was stripped of his UK citizenship, was told he would be sent back to Pakistan following his release in November 2014.
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Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips’ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.
A review of the abuse in Oldham was released in 2022, but its terms of reference only stretched from 2011-2014. Survivors from the town said that they wanted a government-led inquiry to cover a longer period, and catch what the previous review had missed. In Jess Phillips’s letter to the council, revealed by GB News, she said she understood the strength of feeling in the town, but thought it best for another local review to take place.
This is a scandal that should be rooted out entirely, and investigated by the full might of the British state. Voices ranging from Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch have joined the calls for an inquiry. Yet the Government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.
This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
Over time, details have come to light about abuse in Rotherham, in Telford, in Rochdale and in dozens of other places. But with the stories released in dribs and drabs, and the details so horrific as to be almost unreadable, the full scale of the scandal has still to reach the public.
Suffer the children
The following paragraph makes for difficult reading. But you should read it, if you can. It’s drawn from Judge Peter Rook’s 2013 sentencing of Mohammed Karrar in Oxford.
Mohammed prepared his victim “for gang anal rape by using a pump… You subjected her to a gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet.”
Her story is horrific. It is also far from unique.
Take “Anna”, from Bradford. Vulnerable and in residential care, at the age of 14 had made repeated reports of rape, abuse, and coercion. When she “married” her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding, her social worker attended the ceremony. The authorities then arranged for her to be fostered by her “husband’s” parents.
In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood’s child when she was just 14, and was pregnant when she was killed.
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SOURCE: www.telegraph.co.uk
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