Exclusive: Health worker Sara Rowbotham fears for women and girls because of ‘weak’ probation service
The impending release of the Rochdale grooming gang leader is “really scary” for local women and girls because of failings in a “weak” probation service and his lack of remorse, a former health worker who exposed the paedophile ring has said.
Sara Rowbotham, whose team gathered evidence that led to the imprisonment of Shabir Ahmed and eight other men in Rochdale, said she is “terrified” by the prospect of meeting him in the street.
“He has been on my mind ever since I heard that he was not going to be deported as promised. I am genuinely concerned that I will see him walk out of a local bail hostel near my house. If I feel like that, think how the women he abused must feel,” she said.
The Labour MP Andy Burnham said on Wednesday his government would explore “all possible options”, if he becomes prime minister, to close a legal loophole that prevented the deportation of Ahmed, who is due for release this week.
Ahmed’s victims were told in 2012 he would be deported after being jailed for 30 child rape charges involving girls as young as 13. However, this week the government admitted that the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 meant he could not be deported to Pakistan, where he was born, even though he has been stripped of British citizenship.
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