A victim of the Rochdale grooming gang last night urged Priti Patel to kick her abusers out of Britain as the ringleader was pictured stocking up on fizzy drinks in the town where he abused children nine years ago.
Girl A, the main victim of the grooming gang, said it was a disgrace the Government had failed to act and called for an explanation from the Home Secretary.
She spoke out after Abdul Rauf, 51, was pictured buying food and drinks in Rochdale, where he and other gang members groomed and sexually abused young girls.
When the married father-of-five was released on licence in 2014 he was told he faced deportation to Pakistan because he holds a dual-nationality passport.
Outrage over why Rochdale grooming gang members are still in town years after being ordered to leave UK
Abuse victim Holly , her dad, police whistleblower Maggie Oliver, Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd and former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal want the Home Secretary to make good on promises to throw Abdul Rauf, Adil Khan, and Abdul Aziz out of the country
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The central purpose of our justice system is to protect the vulnerable and punish the wrongdoer.
But when civic authorities, including the police and courts, succumb to institutional cowardice, inertia, warped priorities and moral collapse in the face of brutish criminality, that noble ideal is lost.
Those failings were all too apparent in the notorious Rochdale grooming scandal, where predatory gangs of mainly Pakistani heritage abused and exploited local girls (many of them underage and most of them white) over many years.
This week we learned that the betrayal of those victims continues.
It has emerged that a key member of the Rochdale grooming gang, Abdul Rauf a man who was convicted in 2012 of trafficking and sex with a 15-year-old is still at large in the town.
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Rochdale grooming gang member pictured in the town six years after he was supposed to be deported
Detective turned whisteblower Maggie Oliver said today that the failures just go on and on
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Qari Abdul Rauf (Image: PA)
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