Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, are due to be sent back to Pakistan for public good after being convicted in May 2012. Since their release from prison, they have been waging a lengthy legal campaign to avoid deportation from the United Kingdom following the revocation of British citizenship. The men claim the deportation would violate their human rights. At Khan’s last hearing Wednesday, the judge asked how his son would be affected if he was sent back to Pakistan. He said through an interpreter: “As you know, the paternal figure is very important in every culture in the world, to be a model for the child, to tell him the right from the wrong”. He added that his family did not want to return him because his insult would be bad for their business. Khan’s abuse included getting a 13-year-old pregnant and using the threat of violence to pass a 15-year-old on to other men. The father of five, Qari Abdul Rauf, also trafficked a 15-year-old girl for sex, driving her in a taxi to isolated areas and to an apartment where he and others abused her. The nine-man gang has been operating for two years since 2008, flooding 12-year-old girls with alcohol and drugs and gang-raping them in various locations, sometimes pimping them for money. According to police, 47 girls were abused. The girls who were treated were often criminalized by the authorities and were in and out of court. Their case was dramatized on the BBC Three Girls program, but there is still anger in Rochdale that none of the men have been deported. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 5:20 Victims “with contempt” – police complainants The girl who became pregnant, allegedly once came “face to face” with him and a child in Ashda and left the store crying. In April, Wider Manchester Police apologized to three victims for failing to protect them. The force admitted: “GMP could and should have done much more to protect you and we disappointed you.” Campaigners criticized the apology as “10 years too late” and said the girls had been treated with contempt. A report also revealed this week that Rochdale gang leader Shabir Ahmed had once been held responsible for welfare rights by the Oldham Council, despite repeated concerns. Ahmed is serving a 22-year prison sentence. Khan and Rauf’s hearing against their deportation was postponed to Thursday.
