Posted on 07/13/2026 2:23:01 AM PDT by RandFan
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out on Monday the legal steps she will take to deport the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang.
Shabir Ahmed, jailed for 22 years in 2012 for multiple counts of child sexual offences including rape, was released from prison on licence earlier this month.
Calls have mounted across the political spectrum for the deportation of Ahmed, who was stripped of his British citizenship following his conviction, leaving him with only Pakistani nationality.
But he cannot be deported due to a 1971 law that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.
It is not yet clear how Mahmood will change the law.
It also appears Pakistan has no intention of accepting Ahmed, who claims to have renounced his Pakistani citizenship.
Ahmed was one of nine men from Rochdale and Oldham found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at two takeaway restaurants.
After leaving prison, Ahmed was sent to 24-hour staffed accommodation and fitted with a GPS electronically monitored tag.
While he is in the UK, the government has said he would be returned to prison if he breaches a series of strict licence conditions.
Some of his victims said they were "frightened" and felt "unsafe" at his release.
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Your Pakistani Neighbor is 4 times more likely to rape your daughter or granddaughter.
Your Hispanic Neighbor is 3 times more likely to kill your entire family driving drunk.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when the Beeb and other British Media were still strenuously bleating like sheep that “Grooming Gangs” was just a “racist, Islamophobic conspiracy theory without so much as a shred of credible proof to back it up.”
My oh my, how the worm turns.
A plan but will not deport and if they do deport they should deport all involved with this savage
One is deported (maybe) while 10,000 come in.
So the scumbag gets away with scaring who knows how many young girls for life. For his crimes he gets a free ride home to where he came from.
Yup...send him straight to Calais. He’ll be on a tiny boat for Dover the very night he arrives in France.
In a decent society, the father would be nearby on a phone waiting for him. One shot and the whole thing ends.
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