Deportation Is The Headline. The Cover Up Is The Story
Today, Thursday 2 July 2026, the man his victims called Daddy walks free.
Shabir Ahmed is seventy three years old. He has served fourteen years of the sentences handed down in 2012 for the rape and sexual abuse of children in and around Rochdale. He leaves prison on licence, tagged, placed in accommodation staffed around the clock, barred from an exclusion zone drawn around Rochdale and Oldham. He stays on the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.
He cannot be sent back to Pakistan
The Immigration Act 1971 shields him because he arrived in this country before 1973. Stripping him of his British citizenship changed nothing. He tore up his Pakistani passport long ago and Islamabad will not take him back.
And so the grandstanding began.
Joshua Nevett
Andy Burnham is days from Downing Street. On the eve of Ahmed's release the man who expects to be Prime Minister by the end of the month went onto X to announce that nothing was off the table, that he would be asking the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary to review every possible option to remove Ahmed from the country.
Victims must come first, he wrote. Shame his Assurance Reviews did not think the same when they failed to take the testimony of a single Pakistani Rape Gang survivor over a period of almost 7 years.
Deportation is a headline
The question buried underneath, just as with Operation Hexagon, is another question not one politician or mainstream media outlet dares ask. Who protected Shabir Ahmed while he was raping children, and why they did it.
Burnham will not touch that question. The Assurance Review in Oldham that he keeps pointing to as his record on the rape gangs was built from the outset so that it could not.
Ahmed was no stranger who slipped through a gap. He worked for Oldham Council from 1988 until 2006, a welfare rights officer seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre. He sat as a director of the local Citizens Advice Bureau. He carried a Labour Party card. In the Pakistani community of this town he was a heavyweight, a man with reach into the establishment that ran the place. When the BBC turned Rochdale into a drama the country learned his nickname. What the country was never told is that Daddy was one of theirs.
Burnham's review into Ahmed could not compel a single witness. It could look only at the evidence placed in front of it. Its terms of reference were set by Oldham Council, the very body under examination. The very organisation where Ahmed worked, selling children from behind his desk at the council offices.
For 8 years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani grooming gangs. I led the campaign that forced the National Inquiry. Now, with your help, we will force this inquiry to a place it does not want to go.
With your support, we can send complicit politicians to prison. Isn't that prospect alone worth backing?
Burnham and his Labour Party did everything possible to prevent a National Inquiry. They knew that such a Public Inquiry would would have the power to ask questions that would end careers. Just as they knew, that should the truth emerge, politicians would go to prison for what they did.
So whilst the mainstream media and their political masters want to focus on screaming deportation, I want to focus my attention somewhere more dangerous.
The National Inquiry is coming to Oldham. Shabir Ahmed must be summoned to testify. It is time we all learned just who it was that protected him. And yes, ask Andy Burnham if he denies it, Shabir Ahmed was protected and allowed to continue raping and trafficking little girls.
Look out for my full analysis over the weekend. The evidence is conclusive. All that remains is the who and why.
Imagine this, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dragged kicking and screaming in front of a national inquiry into the cover up of the Pakistani Rape Gangs where he is forced to testify under oath and defend his own actions.
You don't have to imagine it. You just need to help me make it happen.
For 8 years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani grooming gangs. I, with the support of the people of Oldham, led the campaign that forced the National Inquiry. Now, with your help, we will force this inquiry to a place it does not want to go.
As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham fronted a series of Assurance Reviews of which one was in my hometown of Oldham. It was a cover-up of a cover-up. It tried to bury the truth. Don't believe me? Ask Maggie Oliver. Even she has come to the same conclusion.
Despite Burnham's efforts to help hide what took place, we forced a national inquiry. Whilst previously defending the robustness of his now exposed cover up, Burnham is now trying his best to rewrite the truth of what he really did.
Unfortunately, as of yet, the national inquiry will not investigate Burnham or his actions and his deceit will go unchallenged. We hope to change this before the investigation starts in Oldham.
Once Burnham is in Downing Street, the pressure to protect him will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will try everything possible not to hold a PM accountable. Much of the press will look away, as always. This is why it is up to us to carry the truth.
Which is why I'm turning this community of readers into something more than what I can manage on my own. We need to grow and become an independent investigative outlet with:
- A professional website to reach larger audiences
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- Research support so no lead goes cold
- In-person events to train people
- Resources to gather evidence and report from failed communities
Before Burnham reaches Number 10, Red Wall and the Rabble needs 2,000 more paid subscribers to help grow and become more than a one man operation. With your help, we can do in towns and cities across the country what we have done in Oldham.
Should we succeed, politicians will go to prison. It is as simple as that. Surely, on this prospect alone, it is worth your support.
Raja 🙏