Neighbours furious as grooming gang leader throws house parties after dodging deportation

Neighbours are furious after finding out a grooming gang ringleader is living on their street in Rochdale after dodging deportation. Convicted paedophile, Qari Rauf, 55, was jailed along with nine other men in 2012 for raping and trafficking vulnerable girls across the north of England.

He was told he would be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving two and a half years of a six year sentence, but he is still in Britain over 10 years later. Rauf avoided being sent back to Pakistan by destroying his passport. Pakistan refused to accept him without valid travel documents.

His neighbours now say he throws parties, with visitors coming and going. Mum of two, Angie Harrison, 45, said: "He has loads of people there, having parties and we don't like the look of the people who come."

Ms Harrison, who has two girls aged seven and eight, told MailOnline her house is back to back with Rauf's and she doesn't like letting her children in the garden. She said: "I have told them all about him. It is disgusting."

The worried mum said parents in the neighbourhood watch over their children "like prison guards".

Child minder, Anita Howarth, 58, said she would pay for him to get a new passport if it got rid of him. Ms Howarth said his living in the street was a "constant reminder" that Britain doesn't care.

She added: "I know it is not just Asians who do it. It's white people as well. But we don't like any paedophiles, no matter what colour they are."