Shabir Ahmed, due for release on Thursday, will reportedly be allowed to stay in the country despite losing his British citizenship.
A Pakistani rape gang ringleader convicted of dozens of child offenses in the UK cannot be deported under British immigration law despite being stripped of his citizenship, the Oldham Chronicle newspaper has reported.
Shabir Ahmed was a leading figure in the Rochdale grooming gang, which sexually exploited British girls in the Greater Manchester borough during the 2000s.
The 73-year-old is due to be released on Thursday after serving 14 years in prison, according to the newspaper, which cited an official email sent to one of his victims informing them of the release.
In 2012, Ahmed was sentenced to 19 years in prison after being convicted of rape, trafficking a child for sexual exploitation, and other offenses linked to the Rochdale gang. Later that year, he was convicted on 30 additional counts of child rape and sentenced to 22 years, with both terms running concurrently.
Despite having his British citizenship revoked, Ahmed cannot be deported under current immigration laws, the Oldham Chronicle reported, citing the official email. Instead, he will reportedly be housed in a 24-hour supervised facility and remain subject to curfews and exclusion zones.
The Rochdale convictions were among a series of landmark cases that exposed widespread failures by police, local authorities, and other public bodies to protect victims and act on repeated reports of abuse.
The gang was one of many, predominantly made up of men of Pakistani origin, that operated across 149 UK districts over several decades, according to a recent report by Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe. Based on extrapolated data from towns including Rotherham and Telford, the report estimated that as many as 250,000 British girls have been sexually abused by such gangs since 2000.
Police and local authorities often failed to intervene for fear of being accused of racism, Lowe argued.
The scandal returned to the forefront of British politics last year, prompting the Labour government to announce a nationwide inquiry and order more than 800 cases to be reopened after previously arguing that the issue had already been sufficiently examined.
The controversy also dealt a major political blow to outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation last week.
Please could you explain why he cannot be deported?
My best guess is he may be stateless? If he’s lost his UK citizenship but given up the citizenship of his country of origin, then that creates a legal and moral conundrum for the country he resides in.They can’t deport him and they have an internationally agreed upon obligation to him. Sucks but there is is.
Believe it or not its entirely over to his human rights & not due to renouncing his pakistani citizenship i kid you not..He actually can be deported they choose not to as others have been given the ability to stay this includes leaders of hamas..This is liberalism in action..If you want more on this nonsense the lotus eaters on youtube will get you up to speed & why Brian Tamaki is concerned about 3rd world immigration as Indians are over represented in sex crimes in the UK including against children..Starmer had 13000.00 rapists & murders released i think it was last year
He hasn’t renounced his pakistani citizenship is what i meant
lets hope he has a painful accident very soon.
The British secret society maxum is “order out of chaos” the shadowy institutions under government are tidal in their influence to push and implement digital ID.
All it takes is a decision like this, public protest and agent provocateur to cause violence, and you have your chaos.
And like COVID the heavy handed response will be for public safety.
“When the people find they cannot get justice through the courts, they will find it through the streets.”
Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X
When legal institutions fail to provide redress, extra-legal means (riots, protests, assassinations, revolution) become the only remaining option, especially when people have lost loved ones or have nothing left to lose.