After losing a seven-year court battle to remain in Britain, two members of a grooming group from Rochdale will be sent to Pakistan. In 2012, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 53, were found guilty of several sexual offenses against underage girls and sentenced to prison later that year.
After Theresa May, the former home secretary informed the pair that they would be deported, the two launched a court challenge. They had contended that being expelled from Britain would violate their human rights, and they both claimed to have documents renunciation of their Pakistani citizenship. However, in a decision issued on Wednesday, immigration judges stated that it was in the public’s best interest to deport the two as quickly as possible.
Khan’s participation in the nine-person grooming gang that police suspect may have exploited as many as 47 vulnerable girls in Rochdale between 2008 and 2010 was criticized by judges Charlotte Welsh and Siew Ling Yoke for their “breathtaking lack of contrition.” The seven-year legal battle that has upset numerous home secretaries and heightened tensions in Rochdale, where the victims and their abusers coexisted, has culminated in the deportation decision, which was taken in August but made public on Wednesday. Khan was found guilty of trafficking a 15-year-old girl to his friends for sexual exploitation and retaliating violently when she objected. He received an eight-year prison sentence. At his trial, it was revealed that in his 40s, he had gotten a 13-year-old girl pregnant while denying paternity.
Khan lamented his lack of rights in the UK during several deportation appeal hearings and claimed he needed to stay to set an example for his son and teach him “right from wrong.” Additionally, he asserted that his indictment was racially motivated and denied any grooming violations. He stated that he could not have groomed anyone because he did not know English. Rauf, a father of five, was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl. He served two years and six months of his sentence before being freed in 2014.
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