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.”

The UK has seen a number of cases of underage girls sexually exploited by groups of men in towns and cities since the 2000s and 2010s.

In some of the most high-profile cases to come to trial, the perpetrators were men of Pakistani heritage and the victims were predominantly white girls.

Earlier this month, the Government announced it will hold a national inquiry into organised child sexual abuse, something it has long been urged to do by opposition politicians.

The announcement came after publication of a review by Louise Casey, an expert on victims’ rights and welfare.

The review pointed to examples of organisations which had avoided the topic of race “for fear of appearing racist or raising community tensions”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “unequivocally” apologised for the failings which had led to grooming and child sexual abuse.

She said while Casey’s review identified cases in which perpetrators were white, British, European, or other ethnicities, there wasn’t enough information to help prevent patterns of crime from being understood and tackled.

The Government has said it will make it mandatory for the police to record the ethnicity and nationality of suspects accused of child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Ms Cooper said laws will be changed so any adult man who engages in penetrative sex with a child under 16 will face a mandatory rape charge.

Officials have also said the National Crime Agency will follow up on an estimated 1,000 cold cases involving child sex abuse by grooming gangs where no one was convicted.