UK PM seeks options to deport Pakistan-origin rape convict
Make us preferred on Google Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed. — Reporter LONDON: British Premier Keir Starmer has asked the home
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UK PM seeks options to deport Pakistan-origin rape convict
Make us preferred on Google Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed. — Reporter LONDON: British Premier Keir Starmer has asked the home secretary to evaluate the case of a Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed amid calls for the statute to be changed to allow him to be deported.
Shabir, 73, known to his victims as “Daddy”, was released from prison on Thursday, after serving 14 years since his conviction in 2012 for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls. He moved to the UK from Gujarat in Pakistan in the late 70s, when he was 14 years old. He holds no Pakistani identity papers, revoked his Pakistan nationality decades ago to obtain the UK citizenship.
He is understood to have been freed on licence and informed he must initially live at a bail hostel which is staffed 24 hours and wear an electronic GPS tag, so will not be allowed to his last known address on Windsor Avenue in Oldham and is subject to an “exclusion zone”, meaning he cannot go to parts of Rochdale.
He has been stripped of his British citizenship, leaving him with no status. He is unable to be deported due to a 1971 statute that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth residents who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.
Downing Street stated the premier had asked Shabana Mahmood to consider options for ensuring Ahmed’s deportation, describing his case as “particularly heinous”.
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