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Rochdale grooming gang members to be deported to Pakistan
Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf lose appeal as judges say ‘very strong public interest’
to deport them
Composite: GMP/PA
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent
The Guardian
Wed 26 Oct 2022 18.55 BST
Two members of a Rochdale grooming gang are to be deported to Pakistan after losing a seven-year legal fight to remain in Britain.
Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 53, were convicted in 2012 of a series of sexual offences against young girls and jailed later the same year.
The pair mounted a legal challenge after Theresa May, the then-home secretary, told them they would be deported.
They had argued that their human rights would be infringed by being removed from Britain and both said they had certificates renouncing their Pakistani citizenship.
Do they have certificates renouncing Islam?
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, however, immigration judges said there was a “very strong public interest” to deport the pair as soon as possible.
Judges Charlotte Welsh and Siew Ling Yoke said Khan had shown a “breathtaking lack of remorse” about his part in the nine-member grooming gang that police believe abused as many as 47 vulnerable girls in Rochdale between 2008 and 2010.
The deportation ruling, which was made in August but released publicly on Wednesday, is the culmination of a seven-year legal challenge that has frustrated several home secretaries and increased tensions in Rochdale, where victims were living alongside their tormentors.
Khan, who was jailed for eight years, was convicted of trafficking a 15-year-old girl to his friends for sexual exploitation and using violence when she complained. His trial heard how, in his 40s, he had got a 13-year-old girl pregnant and denied he was the father.
During various deportation appeal hearings Khan complained about having no rights in the UK and said he needed to remain to be a role model for his son and teach him “right from wrong”.
That maybe wasn't his strongest argument!
He also denied grooming offences, saying his prosecution was racially motivated. He claimed he could not have groomed anyone because he was unable to speak English.
Rauf, a father-of-five, was convicted of trafficking a 15-year-old girl for sex and jailed for six years, serving two years and six months of his sentence before being released in 2014.
Home Office lawyers argued the case had taken a “very long time” and that it was in the public interest to deport both men as soon as possible.
They have now appeared before 12 judges, including a master of the rolls, during hearings at three crown courts, a number of immigration tribunals and the court of appeal. The pair’s legal challenge was funded by more than £550,000 of public money.
Police have said the gang groomed girls as young as 12, and the trial in 2012 heard how the victims were plied with alcohol and drugs, gang-raped above takeaway shops and ferried to flats in taxis to be abused.
Woman raped after being approached by four men wearing black
as cops launch hunt for attackers
Jacob Jaffa, The Sun
8:21, 31 Oct 2022, Updated: 11:00, 31 Oct 2022
A WOMAN has been raped after being approached by four unknown men wearing black.
Cops are appealing for witnesses to the attack in Bournemouth, Dorset and have launched an investigation and a manhunt is underway.
The woman was reportedly approached by four men wearing black and raped. Credit: Google maps
The men were described as Turkish with black beards. Credit: BNPS
The alleged attackers have been described as Turkish with black beards.
The attack was reported to police in the early hours of Sunday morning, at around 3.05am.
Cops rushed to the scene, a cul-de-sac near the town's main nightlife area.
The victim is a woman in her 20s and is being given support by specialist officers, Dorset Police confirmed.
Detective Inspector Kate Starkie said: "A full and detailed investigation has been launched by detectives and a cordon is in place at the location.
"I am appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident or saw any suspicious activity in the area to please come forward."
DI Starkey added: "I would also urge residents with home CCTV or motorists who were travelling in the vicinity with a dashcam to please check their footage for anything relevant to assist our investigation.
"This incident will understandably cause concern for the community and I would like to remind the public that there will be an increased police presence in the town centre as enquiries continue and officers can be approached by members of the public with any information or concerns."
Residents living in a block of flats overlooking the police cordon today described how they were awoken by a young woman 'screaming and crying'.
Vasile Mardari, 38, said: "I was asleep, it was around 4am. I always sleep with the window open.
"I heard a girl screaming and crying at the back of the building for around half an hour. There was the voice of one man.
"She sounded like she didn't have the power to speak - like she was drunk. I think she was coming home after a night out".
And, so, did she call the police right away? Did it take the police a half-hour to respond?
The shocking incident is the latest in a string of rapes in the seaside town in recent weeks.
On October 20, a woman was attacked on Horseshoe Common in Bournemouth. The location is a two minute walk from the Wootton Gardens.
Then on October 21 a woman was raped in a subway in nearby Christchurch by a man she met earlier in the evening.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police online or by calling 101 and quoting reference number 55220176487.
Those who wish to give information anonymously can call independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 55 111 or report to them online.
This unfortunately poor report fails to indicate whether the girl was gang-raped or not, but it would appear to be the case. "Turkish" would indicate a Muslim gang. They shouldn't be that hard to find in a town the size of Bournemouth.
Muslim men are given explicit permission to rape non-Muslim girls in the Quran by Mohammed. This is why there are thousands of young British girls raped or gang-raped by Pakistani men across England.
Bradford: Police charge 24th man in child sex abuse inquiry
IMAGE SOURCE, PA MEDIA
Detectives investigating allegations of historic child sexual abuse in Bradford have charged another man, bringing the total number to 24.
The offences, including rape and child prostitution, are said to have taken place between 2007 and 2011 and involve one victim.
West Yorkshire Police said 23 men have already appeared in court.
Omar Taj, 35, from Bradford, is due before Bradford Magistrates' Court later charged with rape.
Iran leaders would rather beat girls to death than talk to them. This is Islam!
Islamic Republic security forces beat teen girl to death
for tearing Khomeini’s photo
by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post,
October 31, 2022:
An Iranian girl in middle school was beaten to death after police officers found a torn-up photo of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in one of her schoolbooks, local news outlet in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province Haalvsh reported on Sunday night.
The security forces reportedly forced Hamnava’s family and teachers to promise that they would not speak to the press about the incident before handing over her body to them to bury.
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency rejected the report, claiming that there was no such student in the Iranian education system and that no students were killed in Iranshahr.
Amid the large-scale protests that have swept Iran in the past six weeks, Iranian forces have violently cracked down on protesters in Sistan and Baluchestan, especially in Zahedan, located north of Iranshahr. Dozens of protesters have reportedly been killed by Iranian forces in recent weeks in Zahedan.
Sadaf Movahedi was bludgeoned to death last Monday night for walking home from school during protests for women's rights in Iran.
A number of teenagers have been killed amid the protests, with multiple cases of teenage protesters beaten severely or even to death by security forces reported throughout Iran.
Students across Iran continued protesting on Monday, as Iran indicted over a thousand protesters, with many already receiving prison sentences or even the death sentence. The charges placed against the arrested protesters included assaulting security forces and setting fire to public property.
Many students also received text messages informing them that they were expelled or suspended from their universities due to their participation in protests and banning them from entering university property. Slogans and signs against the suspensions were seen at a number of student protests on Monday.
“If students are suspended, the university will be closed,” chanted students at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran in footage shared on social media.
Students at Beheshti University were seen in footage shared online chanting “Freedom, freedom, freedom.”
On Sunday, at Al-Zahra University in Tehran, female students chanted “I will kill, I will kill, whoever killed my sister.”…
The crackdown by authorities just keeps getting worse and worse. As Robert Spencer writes, 'Terror is the only tool in their toolbox.'
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