Suspected British Paedophile Duncan Grant, who was booked for alleged sexual abuse of minors at a Mumbai shelter for street children, was deported from Tanzania last week following the expiry of his residence permit.Grant was forced out of Tanzania after being declared persona non-grata and the Tanzanian government declining to renew the permit because of his tainted past.Senior Immigration Officer Philo Nombo said Grant left Dar-es-Salaam on May 31 aboard Emirates flight EK 702 to Dubai via Nairobi. Later on June 1, he left Dubai at 7.45 am on flight EK 001 which arrived at London’s Heathrow International Airport at 12.15 pm.A CBI spokesperson said he was informed by sources that Grant had left the Tanzania, but could not officially confirm it.Grant’s lawyer Majeed Memon told ’The Indian Express’ that Grant had not contacted him. ‘‘I don’t know where he is. I am going to London and will get information from his solicitors,’’ Memon said.Despite an Interpol red corner notice and an arrest warrant still pending against the former British Royal Navy reservist, Grant was unabashedly running three ‘shelters’ for about 400 children in Tanzania since June 2002, as reported in ’The Indian Express’. The next hearing of the case is on June 17.(With inputs from Nyasigo Kornel of Tanzania’s ’The Guardian’)
