Article #67821

Exclusive: Sara Rowbotham voices fears for women and girls because of ‘weak’ probation service

The release of the Rochdale grooming gang leader is “really scary” for women and girls because of failings in a “weak” probation service, a whistleblower who exposed the paedophile ring has said.

Amid demands for the government to find ways to deport Shabir Ahmed, Sara Rowbotham, a former council worker whose team gathered evidence that led to the imprisonment of Ahmed and eight other men in Rochdale, said she was “terrified” by the prospect of meeting him in the street.