Our proud city is scarred by grooming gang scandal – monster paedo still lives on OUR street… kids play outside his home Qari Abdul Rauf, a former taxi driver and mosque teacher, lives a comfortable life behind net curtains with his wife and children, working as a food delivery driver. Imagine a Rapist and a Mosque Teacher, Deport all the Scum. But Rauf used human rights law to evade deportation, and successive governments failed to deport him. Pakistan has also refused to take him back.

IT was a scandal that shocked and appalled the nation and has left what residents call a “permanent stain” on a once proud northern town.

From as early as the late 90s, a child sex abuse ring preyed on vulnerable girls as young as 12 in Rochdale, with victims claiming they felt “betrayed” by police and social workers who “turned a blind eye”.

The Sun spoke to a mum who claims grooming by Asian gangs was “rife” in the Greater Manchester town, admitting she was one of its victims

Grooming gang leader Qari Abdul Rauf is living a comfortable life in Rochdale

Now, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has finally agreed to a national inquiry into the scandal – months after dismissing calls for one as a “far-Right bandwagon” – angry locals say they fear the Greater Manchester town will be forever tarnished, and worry it may never recover.

What makes it worse is the fact a prominent grooming gang leader is still resident on one of its tree-lined streets – much to the disgust of his neighbours.

Qari Abdul Rauf, a former taxi driver and mosque teacher, lives a comfortable life behind net curtains with his wife and children, working as a food delivery driver.

He was part of a nine-strong gang of Asian men convicted of sex trafficking and other offences including rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child in May 2012.