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"She is quite rightly scared, but feels that she is once again an afterthought." Campaigner Maggie Oliver tells Victoria Derbyshire about the impact of the release of Shabir Ahmed, a grooming gang ringleader who cannot be deported, on one survivor. #Newsnight

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