October 2014 Ex-Milton Keynes Mayor vouched for asylum seeker who is now a convicted paedophile Sex scandal mayor Subhan Shafiq has admitted giving a character reference to ANOTHER serious sex offender – an asylum seeker who is now a convicted paedophile. This time Councillor Shafiq vouched for would-be cab driver Malik Aftab Ahmed when he applied to come to the UK from Pakistan. But after his application was granted Malik was arrested and convicted of four counts of serious sexual assault – two of them involving a girl under the age of 16. He is currently serving a five-year prison sentence and will be on the sex offenders register for life. Mr Shafiq resigned as Mayor of Milton Keynes in August after it emerged that a taxi driver he personally vouched for was a convicted rapist. Nadeem Ahmed Kiani had four previous convictions for serious sexual offences, where he and a friend worked together to threaten women with weapons before raping them. Although Mr Shafiq is no longer mayor he has refused to step down as a councillor –and his party has encouraged him to stay.