6 d. ago Revealed: Notorious Rochdale grooming gang paedophile builds new house in Pakistan village while getting £285k taxpayer handout to fight deportation battle

Furious neighbours of Abdul Rauf in Rochdale say they are terrified to let their children out of sight after the 55-year-old was released having served just two-and-a-half years in prison.

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8 d. ago 'Utter outage' as two Rochdale grooming gang members remain in town 13 years after being told they would be deported

Adil Khan, 54, and Abdul Rauf, 55, are said to remain in the town

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1 week ago Neighbours' fury as Rochdale grooming gang leader throws parties in house fitted with police panic alarm after using legal loophole to dodge deportation

The convicted paedophile, 55, was one of nine men jailed in 2012 for raping and trafficking vulnerable girls across northern England in a case that shocked the country.

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2 w. ago Revealed: How Rochdale social services workers failed two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped by Asian men

The case, which concluded on Friday with all seven gang members being convicted of rape, has laid bare the shocking failure of police and social workers to protect their vulnerable young victims.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer agrees to national inquiry into grooming gang scandal after months of pressure

The prime minister has bowed to pressure to agree to set up an inquiry into grooming gangs with legal powers to call witnesses

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3 w. ago MP slams 'sickening crimes' of Rochdale grooming gang as he makes new inquiry demand

The abuse took place ‘under the noses of social workers and others who should have done far more to protect them’, a court heard

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3 w. ago International manhunt underway for Rochdale grooming gang 'coward' who fled the country

Kasir Bashir, 50, was convicted in his absence - jurors weren't told he had fled the country

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3 w. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang found guilty of raping and abusing two teenage girls who were used as 'sex slaves' over period of five years

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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3 w. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang who used two teenage girls as sex slaves from the age of 13 face years in jail after being convicted of rape and indecency

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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3 w. ago Rochdale grooming gang are convicted of sex offences against two teenage girls over five

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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