“If that doesn’t work, then the British state will have to go about it another way and put the victims of this grooming gang first.”
If the government are unable to get rid of the legal loophole in the 1971 Immigration Act which prevents Shabir Ahmed being removed from the country, the government must take an alternative approach, says former director of public prosecutions Sir Max Hill.
Sir Max Hill was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday-Thursday, 4-7pm.
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