{"id":359822,"date":"2026-07-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/home-secretary-plans-to-change-law-so-grooming-gang-leader-can-be-deported\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:00:09","slug":"home-secretary-plans-to-change-law-so-grooming-gang-leader-can-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/home-secretary-plans-to-change-law-so-grooming-gang-leader-can-be-deported\/","title":{"rendered":"Home secretary plans to change law so grooming gang leader can be deported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/ccvuSO0cc8Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Home secretary plans to change law so grooming gang leader can be deported\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ccvuSO0cc8Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A week after the leader of the Rochdale grooming gang was released from prison, the home secretary is due to set out plans to change the UK\u2019s Immigration Act, which prevented Shabir Ahmed from being deported.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed had been serving a 22 year sentence for 30 counts of child rape when he was released.<\/p>\n<p>But so far Pakistan has insisted it won&#8217;t take Ahmed back.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani political dissident. 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