The deputy leader of Oldham council has denied claims he provided a reference to the notorious Rochdale grooming gang ringleader
The deputy leader of Oldham council has denied claims he provided a reference to notorious Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed, branding them ‘categorically untrue’.
READ MORE:Calls for public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham defeated at raucous meeting “I was never asked and absolutely never would give any such reference, in fact I have no recollection of ever having been approached or given any reference to this individual. This man’s crimes are truly abhorrent and nobody of right mind could support him in the face of crimes that he was accused of and subsequently convicted for.”
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