A VICTIM of gang rape has spoken about her trauma after passengers on a flight prevented her attacker from being deported.

The 27-year-old mum was raped by four men in a flat in London as a teenager and has suffered from severe anxiety since Somalian Yaqub Ahmed's failed deportation last year.

Footage of Ahmed, 29, on the flight to Turkey showed holidaymakers demanding his release, with one shouting: "You’re free, man."

Travellers shouted "they’re separating him from his family" and "take him off the plane" before he was led off by officials escorting him.

The four attackers were jailed for a total of 35 years for raping the 16-year-old and, although one is believed to have died after feeling to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group, she is haunted by the thought of seeing the others who have been released and are still in the UK.

Five months later, Ahmed remains in an Immigration Removal Centre at a cost to taxpayers so far of at least £18,000.

Hannah (not the victim's real name) already lives with post traumatic stress disorder after the shocking abuse over a decade ago, but now she has to live in fear of seeing the three men again.

She told the Mail on Sunday: "A lot of the time I just feel hopeless, it’s never going to end, I’m never going to get away from it.

"They need to deport him. How have they allowed this to happen? It’s an absolute farce. I thought there was meant to be victim’s rights. Where are my rights here?"

Home Office sources say the Government is still planning to deport him, although he appears to have launched yet another appeal.

VICTIM'S TRAUMA
He was listed to appear before an immigration tribunal in Nottingham on March 14, but the Home Office and the tribunal last week refused to reveal the outcome of the hearing.

Yaqub Ahmed, then 19 and living in Clerkenwell, North London; Adnan Mohamud, 19, who lived in the flat where the rape took place; and Adnan Barud, 21, from Holloway, North London, were each jailed for nine years for planning and carrying out the rape.

A fourth man, Ondogo Ahmed, 19, also of Holloway, received eight years for conspiracy to rape.

Hannah has now moved away from London, says she has struggled to find help for her dire mental health.

And, in a sickening contrast, she is constantly reminded of the huge sums of taxpayers' money being spent on Ahmed, who is thought to have been granted refugee status after arriving in Britain from Somalia as a youngster.

Hannah expressed her anger that he was able to get off his deportation flight, saying: "They should have executed their job, which is to calm things down, to tell the passengers if they don’t stop causing trouble they will be removed from the flight just like any other unruly passenger.

"The more they stuck up for him, the more he screamed. It’s like a kid having a tantrum, the more attention you give that kid, the worse their screams get.

"Those people should have realised it takes a lot to get someone deported, maybe we shouldn’t interfere. It was just people who wanted to do a good deed and feel proud of themselves.

"Well, I hope you all feel proud of yourselves."

A Home Office spokesman said: "We are determined to protect the public by removing foreign national offenders who commit criminal offences. We are committed to ensuring that the victims of foreign national offenders receive the information they are entitled to should they request it."