Shabir Ahmed served 14 years for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls in Rochdale. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been asked to review the case amid calls for the law to be changed to allow him to be deported.
A grooming gang leader at the centre of a deportation row has been released from prison, it is understood.
Shabir Ahmed served 14 years for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Ahmed has been stripped of his British citizenship, leaving him with only Pakistani nationality.
There had been calls to deport the 73-year-old but documents published online, apparently sent from the Probation Service to one of his victims, state he cannot be deported back to Pakistan due to a 55-year-old law that bars his removal.
Sir Keir Starmer has now asked Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to review the case amid calls for the law to be changed to allow him to be deported.
Source: https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gang-ringleader-at-centre-of-deportation-row-released-13559834
A grooming gang leader at the centre of a deportation row has been released from prison, it is understood.
Shabir Ahmed served 14 years for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Ahmed has been stripped of his British citizenship, leaving him with only Pakistani nationality.
There had been calls to deport the 73-year-old but documents published online, apparently sent from the Probation Service to one of his victims, state he cannot be deported back to Pakistan due to a 55-year-old law that bars his removal.
Sir Keir Starmer has now asked Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to review the case amid calls for the law to be changed to allow him to be deported.
Source: https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gang-ringleader-at-centre-of-deportation-row-released-13559834