{"id":91517,"date":"2026-07-02T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91517"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:24:05","slug":"rochdale-grooming-gang-leader-who-raped-girls-is-released-from-prison-as-no-10-insists-it-is-powerless-to-deport-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/02\/rochdale-grooming-gang-leader-who-raped-girls-is-released-from-prison-as-no-10-insists-it-is-powerless-to-deport-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochdale grooming gang leader who raped girls is released from prison as No 10 insists it is powerless to deport him"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/01\/18\/109683139-15945723-Shabir_Ahmed_73_will_be_released_from_prison_on_July_2_but_canno-a-1_1782927906781.jpg\" alt=\"Rochdale abuse gang leader Shabir Ahmed, 73, has been released from prison but despite being stripped of British citizenship cannot be deported to Pakistan\" width=\"554\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The leader of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang\u00a0\u2013 convicted of 30 child rapes\u00a0\u2013 has been released from prison today as\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-5b45eb30-760c-11f1-9d70-43b1745eeecb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/downing-street\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Downing Street<\/a><\/span> still insists it is powerless to deport him from Britain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15947361\/Rochdale-grooming-gang-leader-raped-girls-set-released-prison-amid-furious-row-inability-deport-him.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The leader of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang\u00a0\u2013 convicted of 30 child rapes\u00a0\u2013 has been released from prison today as\u00a0Downing Street still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Shabir-Ahmed.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91519,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions\/91519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}