Rochdale grooming gang ‘monster’ who trafficked vulnerable girls and made a 13-year-old pregnant won’t be allowed back into Britain after fleeing the country
A member of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang who impregnated a 13-year-old girl has been permanently deported from the UK after fleeing abroad.
‘Vile’ pedophile Adil Khan, 55, used human rights laws for more than a decade to thwart efforts to extradite him back to his native Pakistan.
The ‘Beast’ sickeningly claimed he should not have been expelled from school because he was a ‘role model’ for his teenage son.
Alongside his abusive friend Abdul Rauf, he cynically renounced his Pakistani citizenship in defiance of successive Home Secretaries – all the while producing a staggering £550,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill.
Today it emerged that Khan had fled abroad rather than be deported and police were urgently trying to establish his whereabouts.
But in a long overdue victory for his victims, the Daily Mail can reveal Khan will not be allowed back to Britain.
Rochdale MP Paul Waugh, who campaigned for both abusers to be sacked, said: ‘It is welcome news that this vile pedophile is no longer in the country.
His victims and many of my constituents in Rochdale will want reassurance that he is gone for good.
Rochdale grooming gang member Adil Khan, who spent four years behind bars after getting a 13-year-old girl pregnant, meeting another girl and selling her to others, has finally escaped the UK, a decade after deportation proceedings began.
Politicians and members of the Pakistani government have engaged in ‘high-level talks’ to allow Rochdale to groom gang ‘beasts’ Abdul Rauf (pictured) and deport Adil Khan.
‘The public will also want more details of his exact whereabouts, but the Home Office has told me he will never be allowed to set foot in the UK again.
‘Since my election, I have been working hard to get Adil Khan and his abusive friend Abdul Rauf deported to Pakistan.
‘Han may be gone, but Rauf needs to go too.’
Greater Manchester Police has been carrying out fitness checks on Khan since his release from prison in 2016.
Today, it was stated that the father of one child was ‘not there’ when the police visited him on October 21 and they determined that he had left the country.
‘We have carried out regular fitness checks on Adil Khan since his release from prison,’ a spokesman said.
‘He was not there during our last visit on 21 October and our investigations determined that he had left the country.
‘We are working with the Home Office in our efforts to locate him.’
Pakistan International Airlines resumed direct flights between Islamabad and Manchester last week after a five-year ban was lifted
Abdulaziz, known as ‘The Master’ to members of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang, avoided deportation after renouncing his Pakistani citizenship and obtaining a British passport.
Khan was part of a nine-man gang of Asian men convicted of targeting 47 13-year-old girls between 2005 and 2008.
They lured their victims with drugs and alcohol and drove them around for sex.
The girls were attacked and raped by as many as five men in a row, often several times a week.
Khan was convicted of trafficking and conspiracy to commit sexual intercourse with a child in 2012 and was sentenced to eight years in prison and released on license after four years.
Along with ringleader Abdulaziz and his abusive friend Abdul Rauf (all of whom had Pakistani citizenship), his British passports were taken away by the then Home Secretary Theresa May in 2015.
However, it was later revealed that all three had given up their Pakistani passports, allowing them to thwart efforts to repatriate them.
In 2020, a woman who was abused by his gang as a girl told how “my heart stopped beating” when she saw Khan shopping at Asda in Rochdale after his release from prison.
At an appeal hearing in 2021, Khan complained about press coverage of the case, which was later brought to mass TV audiences by BBC1’s compelling drama Three Girls.
‘We did not commit such a big crime,’ he said through a translator.
‘I am innocent. ‘Journalists portrayed us as big criminals.’
When asked later by an immigration judge in the case what impact deportation would have on his son, Khan replied through an interpreter: ‘As you know, the father figure is very important in every culture in the world, being a role model for the child, helping him distinguish right from wrong.’
Efforts to oust Aziz, 54, known as ‘The Master’, were quietly halted because he crucially managed to renounce his Pakistani citizenship before his British passport was taken away.
But efforts to deport Rauf and Khan, who took victims to sex parties as far away as Leeds and Bradford, continue.
Earlier this year the Daily Mail revealed how Rauf was building a house in his native Pakistan despite racking up a £285,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill in his fight against deportation.
Rauf, also 55, works for a takeaway app and neighbors in Rochdale complained they were shocked. Walking around ‘like you own this place’.
The case comes amid anger over ministers’ failure to deport dangerous foreign criminals.
But their fight to stay in the country finally appeared to be over when Britain lifted a five-year-old ban on direct flights to and from Pakistan earlier this year.
A senior Pakistani government official said that in return, his country’s interior ministry was expected to give legal permission to accept the return of both men.
State-run Pakistan International Airlines finally resumed direct flights between Islamabad and Manchester last week.
This evening a Home Office spokesman said: ‘Our thoughts are with the victims and survivors of grooming gangs who have shown great bravery in their quest for justice.
‘Adil Khan is a vile man who has fled the country and cannot return.’
