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Pakistani grooming gang suspect ‘refuses to give date for return to UK’

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Rukhsar Ahmed was recently elected an MP in Pakistan while on bail over alleged child rape in 1990s Manchester A grooming gang suspect released on bail in the UK and then re-elected as an MP in Pakistan has reportedly declined to say when he would return to face rape charges. The Guardian disclosed that Rukhsar Ahmed, a former Pakistan state minister, was arrested at Manchester airport in July 2024 on suspicion of raping and trafficking at least two underage girls from care homes in the city’s Rusholme area during the 1990s. Continue reading...

First report: Grooming gang suspect who flew to Pakistan and got elected as an MP while on bail for rape refuses to say when he will return to Britain — dailymail.co.uk, 3d