{"id":9908,"date":"2026-07-06T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:19:58","slug":"justice-secretary-offered-deportation-fix-for-grooming-gang-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/justice-secretary-offered-deportation-fix-for-grooming-gang-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Secretary Offered Deportation Fix For Grooming Gang Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Home Secretary <strong>Chris Philp<\/strong> has urged Justice Secretary <strong>Shabana Mahmood<\/strong> to introduce emergency legislation that would close a legal loophole preventing the removal of <strong>Shabir Ahmed<\/strong>, as <strong>Peter Stevens<\/strong> reports in <em>GB News<\/em>. The proposed measure would amend both the Immigration Act 1971 and the UK Borders Act 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was released from custody last week after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence. He led a criminal network of Pakistani-origin men who systematically targeted and raped girls as young as 12 in Rochdale. Though he was stripped of British citizenship in 2016, existing statutes prevent his deportation because they exempt Commonwealth citizens who arrived before 1973 and have resided in Britain for more than five years.<\/p>\n<p>Philp characterized the situation as a test of the government&#8217;s commitment to removing foreign criminals from British soil. He called on Mahmood to accept the Conservative proposal without delay, stating that such emergency legislation could pass through Parliament within days.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shabir Ahmed is a vile rapist who organised a gang of Pakistani-origin men to systematically gang rape girls as young as 12,<\/em> Philp told the Telegraph, adding that such individuals have no place in the United Kingdom and must be urgently returned to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative amendment would repeal two sections of the 1971 Immigration Act that shield pre-1973 Commonwealth arrivals from deportation after five years of residence. The proposal would also strike down a parallel provision in the 2007 UK Borders Act that repeats the same exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The Shadow Home Secretary&#8217;s intervention comes as public pressure mounts on the government to demonstrate that it will prioritize public safety over outdated legal protections for foreign-born criminals convicted of serious violent and sexual offenses against British children.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed&#8217;s case has become emblematic of wider failures in the justice system&#8217;s handling of grooming gang perpetrators, many of whom have evaded deportation despite being stripped of citizenship due to the severity of their crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/gbnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GB News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Party has proposed emergency legislation to enable deportation of a Pakistani-born grooming gang leader protected by a legal loophole exempting pre-1973 Commonwealth arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":9907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8569,5341,2209,4418,6598,282,8693,5039,8694,48],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-philp","tag-conservative-party","tag-deportation","tag-grooming-gangs","tag-labour-government","tag-pakistan","tag-rochdale","tag-shabana-mahmood","tag-shabir-ahmed","tag-united-kingdom","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9914,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}