Rochdale rape gang ringleader cannot be deported due to loophole as ‘depraved paedophile’ set for prison release – Allah's Willing Executioners

Shabir Ahmed is set to be freed | GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE
A grooming gang leader cannot be deported back to Pakistan despite being stripped of his British citizenship due to a loophole in legislation.
Shabir Ahmed is set to be released from prison on Thursday but is unable to be deported due to a provision in the act that exempts Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 from removal.
The 73-year-old was jailed back in 2012 for multiple rape and child sexual offences in Rochdale.
However, due to the policy in the Immigration Act 1971, Ahmed has lived in the UK long enough to qualify for the exemption.
Ahmed was identified as one of the nine men from Rochdale and Oldham who were found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at two takeaway restaurants in the Heywood area of Rochdale.
He was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court in August 2012 of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
The jury was told …