Gang Rapist Set To Be Kicked Out Of UK After Having Deportation Blocked

A man prevented from leaving the UK by passengers who staged a protest until he was taken off their flight is set to be deported. Home Office officials were forced to abandon the deportation attempt and remove Yaqub Ahmed from the Turkish Airlines flight as it prepared to fly to Istanbul last year. 

He was being removed as he is a convicted gang rapist. Video released showed protesting passengers shouting ‘take him off the plane’ as the man screamed he had been separated from his family. The passengers were unaware of the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in the gang rape of a teenage girl at a flat in North London.


After being removed from the plane, he was fitted with an electronic tag and released on bail. According to Mail On Sunday, Ahmed is currently being held in either Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre close to Heathrow Airport, or at the Yarl’s Wood centre near Bedford.

They added that a deportation order is set to be carried out ‘in the not too distant future’. He will then be returned to Somalia on a government charter flight. Speaking in April, Ahmed’s victim described the moment holidaymakers on the Heathrow plane stopped her attacker from being deported.

Now 27, she said: ‘How could you defend a rapist? How could you intervene? He was in handcuffs, he was being taken out of the country… who are you people to interfere with justice? ‘Fair enough you didn’t know the situation, but now I hope you feel proud of yourselves because you stopped something that I have waited for for so long: something that made me feel that little bit safer.’