The UK government is exploring emergency legislation to deport Shabir Ahmed, the Pakistan-born ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang. Ahmed, released after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for child rape, is exempt from deportation due to a clause in the Immigration Act 1971. Ministers are considering removing these protections.
A 218-page report by MP Rupert Lowe details alleged sexual abuse of at least 250,000 British girls by Pakistani gangs, enabled by authorities. The crowdfunded report, which received no mainstream media coverage, claims the abuse was racially and religiously motivated and occurred nationwide.
Iranian authorities announced the dawn execution of three men convicted of raping minors in western and northern Iran. Two were hanged in Ghorveh for raping a 14-year-old boy, and another in Rasht for raping and killing a 10-year-old child.
Katie Price will testify in the child rape trial of her ex-husband Kieran Hayler, who denies three counts of rape and one of sexual assault against a 13-year-old girl between June and October 2016. The trial is scheduled for October.
