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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Corbett

Shabana Mahmood will change law to allow Rochdale grooming gang leader’s deportation

The home secretary is poised to amend a decades-old law to allow the deportation of a Rochdale grooming gang leader who was released from prison last week.

Shabana Mahmood is expected to outline plans on Monday to change a 1971 statute that currently prevents the removal of Shabir Ahmed, 73, from the UK, according to reports.

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