Burnham Demands Grooming Gang Ringleader Is Deported After Jail Release

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Labour leader frontrunner vows to explore 'all options' as victims fear notorious sex offender's release

Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham has called for one of Britain's most notorious grooming gang ringleaders to be deported after he is released from prison this week.

Shabir Ahmed, convicted in 2012 for multiple rapes and sexual offences against vulnerable girls in the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, is due to leave prison after serving part of a 19-year sentence.

Burnham Wants Offender Removed

Burnham said he will ask the Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary to review every possible option to remove Ahmed from the UK.

"Like everyone, I want this vile criminal out of the country," Burnham said.

"Victims must come first... nothing should be off the table."

Legal Barrier To Deportation

Ahmed was stripped of his British citizenship after his conviction, but existing immigration law reportedly prevents him from being deported to Pakistan.

The Home Office said it remained committed to removing foreign national offenders wherever possible and confirmed officials are examining every available legal option.

Justice Minister Jake Richards admitted previous governments had also struggled to deport offenders to Pakistan because of long-standing legal obstacles.

Victims Fear His Release

The prospect of Ahmed's release has reignited anger among survivors.

One victim, identified only as "Ruby", said she fears for both her own safety and that of her children.

"I'm scared for my safety and my kids' safety," she said, warning Ahmed still has contacts across Rochdale, Oldham and Middleton despite restrictions being placed on him.

Former detective Maggie Oliver, whose whistleblowing exposed failings in the original investigation, said victims once again felt they had become an afterthought.

One Of Britain's Worst Grooming Scandals

Ahmed will initially live in supervised accommodation under strict licence conditions and will be banned from entering an exclusion zone centred on Rochdale.

However, critics argue those measures do not go far enough.

The Rochdale grooming gang scandal remains one of Britain's darkest child exploitation cases. Nine men were convicted in 2012 after systematically abusing vulnerable teenage girls over several years, exposing major failures by police and local authorities that were later condemned in official reports.

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Do 'grooming gangs' require leadership? Perhaps many are Brits and cannot be deported but certainly charged and convicted. Immigrants charged, trial, conviction, sentence, deportation.

2012 +19 =2031..why is he being released 5 years early?

Funny how he wants an investigation. He rejected having an inquiry into these gangs in Manchester when he was the Mayor. Now he suddenly wants to see justice.

33 minutes ago, baansgr said:

2012 +19 =2031..why is he being released 5 years early?

Most UK prison sentences have automatic release at the halfway point. Some of the much longer sentences fall under different rules where over 50% is served. Life sentences usually have a minimum sentence e.g. 'Life with a minimum of 26 years'. Almost nobody serves the full sentence.

Some of the shorter sentences only serve 25% of the sentence in prison and are then released on tag.

It depends on the nature of the crime, the length of the sentence and the current policy.

Welcome to Broken Britain where crime pays.

BTW This piece of excrement will not be deported whatever Andy Burnham purports to 'demand'.

Edited July 2Jul 2 by Briggsy

Our Women are getting well pissed off with getting raped by imported scum, our men are miffed with getting stabbed and murdered, by illegal migrants and Andy' wants to send this one back.

I doubt his leftie' woke backbenchers will allow his deportation, and demand him made Mayor' of Oldham will be the U-turn outcome 🤔

Burnham knows very well Shabir Ahmed will die before he is ever deported. There's not a chance in hell of the UK government bundling him on to a plane. He is in his 70's now. He cannot be deported under the current Immigration Act any way. However, Burnham needs to say the 'right thing' to keep control of the white working class vote.

This is all silly performance by Burnham.

If he can't be deported to Pakistan, how about Rwanda? I thought the UK already had a deal?

If they deport him, he'll be back in a week or 2.

37 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Our Women are getting well pissed off with getting raped by imported scum, our men are miffed with getting stabbed and murdered, by illegal migrants and Andy' wants to send this one back.

I doubt his leftie' woke backbenchers will allow his deportation, and demand him made Mayor' of Oldham will be the U-turn outcome 🤔

You know men are getting raped also? Not quite on the collosal scale as women and kids but there was at least 5 reported cases last year..

51 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Most UK prison sentences have automatic release at the halfway point. Some of the much longer sentences fall under different rules where over 50% is served. Life sentences usually have a minimum sentence e.g. 'Life with a minimum of 26 years'. Almost nobody serves the full sentence.

Some of the shorter sentences only serve 25% of the sentence in prison and are then released on tag.

It depends on the nature of the crime, the length of the sentence and the current policy.

Welcome to Broken Britain where crime pays.

BTW This piece of excrement will not be deported whatever Andy Burnham purports to 'demand'.

It's all showcasing, maybe chemical castration would be a good idea for this kind