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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

PM asks Home Secretary to examine options for deporting grooming gang ringleader

Shabir Ahmed (Greater Manchester Police via PA) - (PA Media)

Sir Keir Starmer has asked the Home Secretary to review the case of a Rochdale grooming gang ringleader amid calls for the law to be changed to allow him to be deported.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, known to his victims as “Daddy”, was released from prison on Thursday, the Press Association understands, after serving 14 years since his conviction in 2012 for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls.

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