A woman abused as a child by a paedophile imam who fled the UK to avoid prison has slammed police for failing to arrest him - even though they know where he is.
Hafiz Rahman, 60, escaped to Bangladesh three years ago after being found guilty of abusing two children at his mosque in the West Midlands in the 1980s.
Detectives were unaware he had a second passport, but it can be revealed officers have now located him and are consulting with the Crown Prosecution Service for an extradition warrant.
But one of the victims, who was abused by Rahman for five years from the age of seven in the late 1980s, told MailOnline she was terrified he could be still targeting children.
‘The police let him escape the first time,' she said. 'This must not happen again. Every extra minute he is free means he could take off again.
‘He needs to be arrested straight away. I know they have found where he is. I can’t understand why he isn’t in chains and on a flight back with the police.
A woman abused as a child by convicted paedophile imam Hafiz Rahman (above) has slammed police for failing to arrest him - even though they know where he is after he fled the UK to avoid prison
The 60-year-old managed to escape to Bangladesh three years ago after being found guilty of abusing two children at his mosque in the West Midlands in the 1980s. One of the victims (above, now 42) told MailOnline: 'Every extra minute he is free means he could take off again'
‘He is a horrible, evil man and my worry is that he is continuing being this fake righteous imam and is doing to kids in Bangladesh what he did to me.'
The recently married now 42-year-old went on: ‘He must be laughing at us over here.
'The police neglected to find out that he had access to a second passport and then all that time and money was wasted on getting him convicted and he just took off.
‘He was found guilty of sexually abusing me and another girl and I believe there would have been many more victims too scared to tell anyone. '
Rahman, a father of seven and grandfather of 10, was arrested in a police raid in 2015 after a MailOnline journalist worked with one of the victims to track him down.
She had gone to police a year before saying she had been abused daily between the ages of seven and 11, but was told Rahman was believed to be abroad.
However, he was still officiating at a mosque in Dudley, living locally and detectives were informed.
After a five day trial, Rahman was found guilty of five charges of indecent assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court on October 8, 2016.
He had repeatedly
