A Senior judge has slammed the  lawyers for obstructing the Rochdale child sex grooming gang deportation case.

According to a report in this morning’s Sunday Telegraph Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey has accused taxpayer funded lawyers representing the gang of treating the immigration tribunal, which will decide whether they should be allowed to remain in Britain, with “sustained and marked disrespect”.

The gang from Rochdale are appealing against a decision by then then Home Secretary, Theresa May, to strip them of British citizenship as the first step to deporting them.

The four men  were convicted in 2012 of preying on girls as young as 13 in Rochdale, plying them with drink and drugs before they were “passed around” for sex.

The leader of the group Shabir Ahmed was given a 19-year sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in May 2012 for a string of child sex offences, including rape.

He,along with three other men convicted of child sex offences in the same case, Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf, are  appealing against being stripped of citizenship by the Home Secretary.

The appeal has been made in their behalf by a Nottingham-based firm Burton and Burton and the Telegraph says that Justice McCloskey, President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, said: “The conduct of these appeals has been cavalier and unprofessional. The rule of law has been weakened in consequence.”

The judge, who is expected to deliver his decision on the men’s appeal against deportation this month, added: “Scarce judicial and administrative resources have been wasted in dealing with repeated unmeritorious requests by the Appellants’ solicitors for an adjournment.”

 

 

 

 

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