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Grooming gang 'sex slave' rapist may have fled UK
Scottish Daily Express
|July 15, 2025
A GROOMING gang predator on the run for six months may have left the UK despite surrendering his passport.
Kasir Bashir, 50, was one of seven men convicted last month of the sexual exploitation of two white teenage girls whom they used as “sex slaves” in Rochdale over five years.
But the Pakistani-born rapist vanished just before the trial started six months ago at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
He was found guilty in his absence and remains on the run.
Alarming
Greater Manchester Police have not ruled out the possibility he has left the country, although this is not certain.
Bashir had to hand in his passport as part of pretrial bail conditions set by a crown court judge.
This story is from the July 15, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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