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Rochdale grooming gang leader released from jail MPs demand action as Pakistani child rapist is protected from deportation by legal loophole
The Pakistani ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang has been released from prison amid growing calls for his deportation.
Shabir Ahmed, 73, who was convicted of 30 child rape offences, cannot be thrown out of the country despite being stripped of his British citizenship.
He is protected by a loophole in the Immigration Act 1971, which exempts Commonwealth citizens who arrived in Britain before 1973 from removal.
He has lived in the UK long enough to qualify for the exemption after arriving from Pakistan, which was a Commonwealth member at the time.
Ahmed, who was sentenced to 22 years in jail in 2012, has now been released from a prison in the north of England after serving 14 years.
He is set to be accommodated at a bail hostel in the region, where he will be under 24-hour supervision, subject to electronic tagging and banned from entering Oldham, where he lived, or Rochdale, where he committed his crimes.
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