He was jailed for 19 years in 2012 at Liverpool Crown Court, one of nine men in the Rochdale grooming gang trial convicted of offences against five girls.<\/p>\n
Police said as many as 50 girls could have been victims of the gang, and that many of them had come from “chaotic”, “council estate” backgrounds.<\/p>\n
Judge Gerald Clifton said victims were treated “as though they were worthless and beyond any respect” because they were not part of the gang’s community or religion.<\/p>\n
Greater Manchester Police said at the time there was no “racial or cultural” element to the crimes.<\/p>\n
A report later found that police had not acted despite multiple concerns being raised. It said there had been “serious multiple failures” by police and local authorities.<\/p>\n
Ahmed’s case follows a similar legal battle by two other gang members, Qari Abdul Rauf and Adil Khan.<\/p>\n
Both were stripped of their British citizenship in 2022 after fighting a long legal battle which went all the way to the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n
Both invoked their human rights under article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to a private and family life – to avoid deportation.<\/p>\n
The Home Office has not said if either man had been deported.<\/p>\n
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Ahmed’s horrific crimes were at the heart of the grooming gangs scandal that represents one of the darkest moments in our country’s history.<\/p>\n
“The most vulnerable people were abused and exploited at the hands of evil child rapists, and must face the full force of the law.”<\/p>\n
It said Ahmed must sign the sex offenders’ register for life and any breach of his licence conditions would result in him being “immediately locked up”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was jailed for 19 years in 2012 at Liverpool Crown Court, one of nine men in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}