Both were part of a gang convicted of a list of serious sexual offenses in May 2012. Since their release from prison, they have waged a long battle against deportation – with multiple lawsuits and appeals – spanning several years with the reasoning that deportation would interfere with their human rights. Khan was sentenced to eight years and released on bail four years later. He appeared at a recent deportation hearing on Wednesday (June 22nd) to argue that he should not be deported. Judge Charlotte Welsh asked him how his son could be affected if he was deported from the United Kingdom. READ MORE:A married GMP officer was jailed for trying to rape a woman he met in a pub Khan, speaking through a Miripuri interpreter, replied: “As you know, the paternal figure is very important in every culture in the world, to be a role model for the child, to tell him right from wrong”. Khan also claimed that he was not wanted by his family back in Pakistan because his reputation would be bad for the business they own. The failure to expel any grooming gang has sparked outrage in Rochdale, where the victims lived next to their torturers, and has sparked public criticism of several interior ministers. Khan became pregnant with a 13-year-old girl but denied being his father, then met another 15-year-old girl and passed it on to others using force when she complained. Qari Abdul Rauf (Image: PA) Rauf, a father of five, abused a 15-year-old girl for sex, drove her to secluded areas to have sex with her in his taxi, and took her to an apartment in Rochdale, where he and others had sex with her. He was sentenced to six years in prison and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence. For two years, since 2008, a gang of men in Rothdale hunted 12-year-old girls, flooding them with alcohol and drugs before rushing en masse into rooms above packaged shops and transporting them to different taxis where cash was paid. USE them. Police said up to 47 girls were groomed. The appeal of both men was postponed for the morning of Thursday (June 23). READ NEXT: