Change law to kick out Rochdale rapist, No 10 urged

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Reported in The Telegraph that Labour is facing mounting pressure to change immigration laws immediately so that a child rapist freed from jail can be deported.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, was sentenced to more than 20 years in jail after being convicted of 30 child rape offences as part of the Rochdale grooming gang.

But on Thursday, the Pakistan-born rapist was released after serving 14 years.

Britain stripped him of his citizenship, but cannot currently deport him because of protections granted to Commonwealth immigrants such as Ahmed under the Immigration Act 1971.

On Thursday, Downing Street said the Prime Minister had asked Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, to “consider what can be done” to deport Ahmed, describing his case as “particularly heinous”.

It comes after Andy Burnham, expected to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, also vowed to “review all options” to deport the "vile criminal".

The amendment to Ms Mahmood’s immigration bill will propose rewriting the 1971 act to permit the removal of serious criminals such as Ahmed.

However, even if an amendment were to pass, two senior Pakistani government officials told The Telegraph that the country would not accept Ahmed back because he renounced his Pakistani citizenship “several decades ago”.

They added that he posed a danger to Pakistani children.

If their claim is correct, it places Ahmed in the same situation as two other freed Pakistani ringleaders of the Rochdale grooming gang whom Pakistan has refused to take back.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/02/deport-foreign-born-child-rapists-demand-labour-mps/

There's no way this scumbag will be deported back to his country of origin. The British state will do everything it can to keep him. They are globalists first and foremost.

The trick is to fool people into thinking they want to deport these lowlifes. And if that doesn't work, they'll try to curtail free speech.

That’s utter nonsense. What’s the benefit to the “British state” to Ahmed being here? Zero. His security is costing a fortune and there’s a lot of political capital in succeeding in deporting him. It’s win/win.

Yes, he's free to go back to his own community where no doubt he'll be welcomed with open arms by his clansmen and female relatives.

Maybe he could go back to his job as Oldham Council's Welfare Rights officer? I'm sure he still has many friends in the local council, business community etc.

He isn’t. He’s prohibited from going anywhere near the towns where he committed his crimes and is under heavy security.

Yes, it would totally be a win/win.

But I doubt it will happen. There's too many vested interests. Politicians who see ethnic minorities as their voter base. Lawyers who will launch appeal after appeal. Media and political commentators who see this scumbag and his ilk as the victims of oppression.

Great so he could be living near another community, I wonder how they would feel.

He's dangerous pure and simple, and in the interests of safeguarding children he should be locked up still..

I'm sure we'd all be happy to find him living in our community. He shouldn't be free.

I haven’t seen a single commentator defending Ahmed or viewing him as victim of oppression. The view seems unanimous across all the media I’ve read and heard that the sooner he’s on a plane the better.

As blossomtoes said, not a single lawyer, politician or commentator has defended him or said he's a victim of oppression. Not sure where you are getting this idea from. I think we are all united, left and right, in wanting shot of the scumbag if possible.

I think we will find if there is an attempt to deport him that the lawyers will fight his deportation by launching appeals.

Who will pay those lawyers?

He's banned from entering certain parts of Greater Manchester including Rochdale. But he was employed by Oldham Council, so he probably has plenty of connections beyond Rochdale.

Probably they're paid through legal aid / state provision.

Well, we shall see. I very much hope I'm wrong and that he is deported back to Pakistan.

The British state will do everything it can to keep him

This is just nonsense. Why on earth would it?

The government won’t fund legal aid to defend a case against itself.

Everyone is entitled to the right of legal representation,

If you want to take that away, you will find yourself on a very slippery slope.

The idea of blocking is incorrect

No, the government cannot arbitrarily stop or block you from using legal aid if you meet all the legal criteria

It might be rare but the monster we are discussing was also found guilty of raping an Asian girl.

She was Sikh I think. Girls from other Asian communities were also targeted because they knew the shame and secrecy would mean they were less likely to report it. The White girls targeted were unprotected by the officers of the state.

I don't think there is the slightest difference between what and why Starmer/Burnham are saying about deporting this man and what Farage says. It's about votes and popular support, not protecting women.

Does he own anything, like property, I wonder? Because he will be means tested.

The victims have said it too. They targeted white and Sikh girls.

Labour will be motivated as it somewhat lessens the glare over rape gangs. The hurdle will be Pakistan saying no way.

The point is, if he is deemed a danger he should still be in prison. The other stuff is all smoke and mirrors. He shouldn’t be out.

Also he isn’t a foreign criminal, he’s a good old fashioned home grown one. Where would we deport him to? Put him in a bus back to wormwood scrubs or wherever.

There’s no means in our legal system for keeping someone in prison beyond the end of their sentence. Hopefully one of the results of this case will be judges thinking hard about handing down concurrent sentences. If the sentences hadn’t been concurrent this guy would have been approaching 90 by the time he was released.

Yes, and of course Labour or any other party wouldn't use the leverage they have (millions in aid to Pakistan, thousands of visas issued) to persuade the Pakistani government to accept him.