The leader of the men convicted of a series of rapes in Rochdale who is being released from prison this week looks set to be able to remain in the U.K.
Shabir Ahmed was given a 19-year sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in May 2012 for a string of child sex offences, including rape.
Ahmed cannot be thrown out of Britain because of an anomaly under the Immigration Act 1971 which prevents Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 from removal
His Victims girls, overwhelmingly White British, were groomed with alcohol and drugs, repeatedly raped, passed around between offenders,have been told that he’ll live in supervised accommodation with an exclusion zone around Rochdale.
Ahmed worked as a welfare rights officer for Oldham Council and was seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre.
