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A member of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang who made a girl of 13 pregnant has been permanently banished from Britain after absconding abroad.
'Vile' paedophile Adil Khan, 55, has spent more than a decade using human rights legislation to thwart efforts to deport him back to his native Pakistan.
The 'monster' sickeningly claimed he shouldn't be thrown out because he was a 'role model' for his teenage son.
Along with fellow abuser Abdul Rauf he cynically renounced his Pakistani citizenship as they defied successive Home Secretaries - meanwhile running up a staggering £550,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill.
Today it emerged that instead of being deported, Khan has fled abroad, with police urgently trying to establish his whereabouts.
But in a long-overdue victory for his victims, the Daily Mail can reveal that Khan will not be allowed back into Britain.
Rochdale MP Paul Waugh, who has campaigned for both abusers to be kicked out, said: 'It’s very welcome news that this vile paedophile is no longer in the country.
'His victims, and many of my constituents in Rochdale, will want reassurance that he’s gone for good.
Rochdale grooming gang member Adil Khan, who spent four years behind bars after he got a 13-year-old girl pregnant then met another girl and trafficked her to others, has finally fled the UK a decade after deportation proceedings began
Politicians and members of the Pakistani government have been in engaged in 'high-level talks' to allow Rochdale grooming gang 'monsters' Abdul Rauf, pictured, and Adil Khan to be deported
The public will also want more details of his exact whereabouts, but I’ve been told by the Home Office that he will never be allowed to set foot in the UK ever again.
'Ever since I was elected, I’ve been working hard to get Adil Khan and his fellow abuser Abdul Rauf deported to Pakistan.
'Khan may be gone, but Rauf needs to be gone too.'
Greater Manchester Police has been conducting compliance checks on Khan since his release from prison in 2016.
It today said the father-of-one 'was not there' when officers visited on October 21 and they had now established that he has left the country.
'We've regularly conducted compliance checks with Adil Khan since he was released from prison,' a spokesman said.
'On our most recent visit on October 21 he was not there and our enquiries have since established he has left the country.
'We are working alongside the Home Office in our efforts to locate him.'
Abdul Aziz, known as 'The Master' by fellow members of the infamous Rochdale grooming gang, avoided deportation after renouncing his Pakistani citizenship before being stripped of his British passport.
Khan was part of a nine-strong gang of Asian men convicted for targeting 47 girls as young as 13 between 2005 and 2008.
They plied their victims with drugs and alcohol and passed them around for sex.
The girls were assaulted and raped by as many as five men, one after the other, often multiple times a week.
Khan was sentenced to eight years in 2012 after being convicted of trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child and released on licence four years later.
Along with ringleader Abdul Aziz and fellow abuser Abdul Rauf - all of whom had Pakistani citizenship - he was stripped of his British passport by then Home Secretary Theresa May in 2015.
However it later emerged that all three had renounced their Pakistani passports, enabling them to block efforts to send them back.
In 2020 a woman abused by his gang as a girl told how 'my heart just stopped beating' when she spotted Khan shopping in Asda in Rochdale after he was freed from jail.
At an appeal hearing in 2021, Khan complained about Press coverage of the case, which was later brought to mass TV audiences by the hard-hitting BBC1 drama Three Girls.
'We have not committed that big a crime,' he said through a translator.
'I'm innocent. The journalists made us out to be big criminals.'
Asked later in the case by an immigration judge what impact deportation would have on his son, Khan replied via an interpreter: 'As you know, the father figure is very important in every culture in the world, to be a role model for the child, to tell him or her right from wrong.'
Efforts to throw out 54-year-old Aziz - known as 'The Master' - were quietly dropped as he had crucially managed to abandon his Pakistani citizenship before being stripped of his British passport.
However efforts to deport Rauf - who ferried victims to sex parties as far away as Leeds and Bradford - and Khan have continued.
Earlier this year the Daily Mail revealed how Rauf built a house in his native Pakistan – despite racking up a £285,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill in his battle against being deported.
Rauf, also 55, has been working for a takeaway delivery app, with shocked neighbours in Rochdale complaining that he has been walking around 'like he owns the place'.
The case comes amid anger at ministers' failure to deport dangerous foreign criminals.
But their fight to stay in this country finally began to look doomed earlier this year when the UK dropped a ban on direct flights to and from Pakistan dating back five years.
A senior Pakistani government official said that in exchange his nation's interior ministry was expected give legal clearance 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 immense bravery throughout their pursuit of justice.
'Adil Khan is a vile man who has fled the country and will not be able to return.'
'Vile' paedophile Adil Khan, 55, has spent more than a decade using human rights legislation to thwart efforts to deport him back to his native Pakistan.
The 'monster' sickeningly claimed he shouldn't be thrown out because he was a 'role model' for his teenage son.
Along with fellow abuser Abdul Rauf he cynically renounced his Pakistani citizenship as they defied successive Home Secretaries - meanwhile running up a staggering £550,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill.
Today it emerged that instead of being deported, Khan has fled abroad, with police urgently trying to establish his whereabouts.
But in a long-overdue victory for his victims, the Daily Mail can reveal that Khan will not be allowed back into Britain.
Rochdale MP Paul Waugh, who has campaigned for both abusers to be kicked out, said: 'It’s very welcome news that this vile paedophile is no longer in the country.
'His victims, and many of my constituents in Rochdale, will want reassurance that he’s gone for good.
Rochdale grooming gang member Adil Khan, who spent four years behind bars after he got a 13-year-old girl pregnant then met another girl and trafficked her to others, has finally fled the UK a decade after deportation proceedings began
Politicians and members of the Pakistani government have been in engaged in 'high-level talks' to allow Rochdale grooming gang 'monsters' Abdul Rauf, pictured, and Adil Khan to be deported
The public will also want more details of his exact whereabouts, but I’ve been told by the Home Office that he will never be allowed to set foot in the UK ever again.
'Ever since I was elected, I’ve been working hard to get Adil Khan and his fellow abuser Abdul Rauf deported to Pakistan.
'Khan may be gone, but Rauf needs to be gone too.'
Greater Manchester Police has been conducting compliance checks on Khan since his release from prison in 2016.
It today said the father-of-one 'was not there' when officers visited on October 21 and they had now established that he has left the country.
'We've regularly conducted compliance checks with Adil Khan since he was released from prison,' a spokesman said.
'On our most recent visit on October 21 he was not there and our enquiries have since established he has left the country.
'We are working alongside the Home Office in our efforts to locate him.'
Abdul Aziz, known as 'The Master' by fellow members of the infamous Rochdale grooming gang, avoided deportation after renouncing his Pakistani citizenship before being stripped of his British passport.
Khan was part of a nine-strong gang of Asian men convicted for targeting 47 girls as young as 13 between 2005 and 2008.
They plied their victims with drugs and alcohol and passed them around for sex.
The girls were assaulted and raped by as many as five men, one after the other, often multiple times a week.
Khan was sentenced to eight years in 2012 after being convicted of trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child and released on licence four years later.
Along with ringleader Abdul Aziz and fellow abuser Abdul Rauf - all of whom had Pakistani citizenship - he was stripped of his British passport by then Home Secretary Theresa May in 2015.
However it later emerged that all three had renounced their Pakistani passports, enabling them to block efforts to send them back.
In 2020 a woman abused by his gang as a girl told how 'my heart just stopped beating' when she spotted Khan shopping in Asda in Rochdale after he was freed from jail.
At an appeal hearing in 2021, Khan complained about Press coverage of the case, which was later brought to mass TV audiences by the hard-hitting BBC1 drama Three Girls.
'We have not committed that big a crime,' he said through a translator.
'I'm innocent. The journalists made us out to be big criminals.'
Asked later in the case by an immigration judge what impact deportation would have on his son, Khan replied via an interpreter: 'As you know, the father figure is very important in every culture in the world, to be a role model for the child, to tell him or her right from wrong.'
Efforts to throw out 54-year-old Aziz - known as 'The Master' - were quietly dropped as he had crucially managed to abandon his Pakistani citizenship before being stripped of his British passport.
However efforts to deport Rauf - who ferried victims to sex parties as far away as Leeds and Bradford - and Khan have continued.
Earlier this year the Daily Mail revealed how Rauf built a house in his native Pakistan – despite racking up a £285,000 taxpayer-funded legal bill in his battle against being deported.
Rauf, also 55, has been working for a takeaway delivery app, with shocked neighbours in Rochdale complaining that he has been walking around 'like he owns the place'.
The case comes amid anger at ministers' failure to deport dangerous foreign criminals.
But their fight to stay in this country finally began to look doomed earlier this year when the UK dropped a ban on direct flights to and from Pakistan dating back five years.
A senior Pakistani government official said that in exchange his nation's interior ministry was expected give legal clearance 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 immense bravery throughout their pursuit of justice.
'Adil Khan is a vile man who has fled the country and will not be able to return.'
