{"id":53443,"date":"2026-07-01T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53443\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:49:07","slug":"survivors-of-rochdale-grooming-gang-terrified-as-ex-leader-to-be-released-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53443\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of Rochdale grooming gang &#8216;terrified&#8217; as ex leader to be released from jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Survivors of Rochdale grooming gang &#039;terrified&#039; as ex leader to be released from jail\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ie3pV_yo9QI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSurvivors of Rochdale grooming gang &#8216;terrified&#8217; as ex leader to be released from jail<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe man increasingly likely to be the next  Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has called on the Home Office and Foreign Office to &#8216;review all possible options&#8217; to deport the ringleader of a grooming gang set for release.<\/p>\n<p>Shabir Ahmed, 73, known to his victims as \u201cDaddy\u201d, will be freed on Thursday 2 July after serving 14 years in jail since his conviction in 2012 for multiple rape and sexual offences against young girls in Rochdale.<\/p>\n<p>Victims have also been told that Ahmed, who holds dual Pakistani-British citizenship, cannot be deported back to his birth country despite being stripped of his British citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivors of Rochdale grooming gang &#8216;terrified&#8217; as ex leader to be released from jail The man increasingly likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[1796,48316,6655,482,1789,15407,24994,14718,3637,380,22568,379,484,1790,31,1793,1795,1794,48314,2300,48315,22561,485,4959,5940],"class_list":["post-53443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-arrest","tag-british-citizenship","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-crown-court","tag-deported","tag-foreign-office","tag-home-office","tag-itv","tag-itv-crime","tag-itv-news","tag-justice","tag-justice-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-police-force","tag-police-officer","tag-prime-minister-andy-burnham","tag-sentencing","tag-shabir-ahmed","tag-survivor","tag-trial","tag-true-crime","tag-victim"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}