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After 14 years behind bars, Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed — known as ‘Daddy’ — is set to walk free tomorrow, sparking outrage and fear among victims and their families. Convicted in 2012 for sexually exploiting girls as young as 13, Ahmed, 72, cannot be deported due to a 1971 UK immigration law that bars removal for those who arrived before 1973 and lived here over five years — even though he holds dual Pakistani-British citizenship. Despite being stripped of his British citizenship, he’ll be relocated outside Greater Manchester and remain on the sex offenders register for life, under strict curfews, exclusion zones, and an electronic tag. Victims and their families warn he’ll re-offend, demanding legal reform to allow deportation. Local leaders and advocacy groups are pushing the government to find any legal loophole to remove him — highlighting a broader crisis in protecting victims and enforcing justice for foreign offenders.

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