Two members of the so called Rochdale grooming gang have lost their appeal against deportation this afternoon in the courts
Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf were both part of the gang that were convicted of a number of serious sex offences in May 2012.
Since their release from jail, they have fought a long legal battle against deportation on the grounds that it would interfere with their human rights.
Back in the summer a tribunal had heard how all they were liable to be deprived of UK citizenship and deported as they also held Pakistani nationality, and then-home secretary Theresa May ruled it would be “conducive to the public good”.
Rauf, a father-of-five, trafficked a 15-year-old girl for sex, driving her to secluded areas to have sex with her in his taxi and ferry her to a flat in Rochdale where he and others had sex with her.
Khan got a 13-year-old girl pregnant, but denied he was the father, then met another girl, 15, and trafficked her to others using violence when she complained.
