Labour MPs are calling for Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed to be barred from the whole of North West England and Yorkshire, following his release from prison on 2 July 2026. In a letter to Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, MPs from the areas where Ahmed committed his offences warned that he remains an "unrepentant risk to society" and showed no "meaningful reform" in his attitudes, while government ministers are separately trying to find a way to deport him from Britain.

Ahmed, 73 and known to his victims as "Daddy", served 14 years after his 2012 conviction for rape and sexual offences against girls, some as young as 12. On release he was ordered to live initially at a bail hostel staffed around the clock, wear an electronic GPS tag, stay away from his last known address on Windsor Avenue in Oldham, and observe an exclusion zone barring him from parts of Rochdale. The MPs, including Jim McMahon (Oldham West), want that exclusion zone widened to cover the entire two regions, arguing he continues to pose an ongoing risk to the public.