Foreigners are convicted of up to 23 per cent of sex crimes, according to the first data analysis of its kind.
Data from the Ministry of Justice, obtained under freedom of information laws, show that 15 per cent of sexual offences, including rape, were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023.
A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.
Those labelled “unknown” are likely to largely include non-British nationals, taking the total number likely to have been committed by foreigners up to 23 per cent.
Foreigners are convicted of up to 23 per cent of sex crimes, according to the first data analysis of its kind.
Data from the Ministry of Justice, obtained under freedom of information laws, show that 15 per cent of sexual offences, including rape, were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023.
A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.
Those labelled “unknown” are likely to largely include non-British nationals, taking the total number likely to have been committed by foreigners up to 23 per cent.
This is despite census data showing foreign nationals make up just 9.3 per cent of the population.
Two nationalities – Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens, according to the data. Overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions.
The data, drawn from the police national computer, shows that there were 16,771 convictions for sexual offences carried out by someone with a known nationality between 2021 and 2023, and migrants accounted for 2,500 of these.
The highest numbers of sex offence convictions were accounted for by Romanians (987), Poles (208), Indians (148) and Pakistanis (144).
However, the rates, based on convictions per 10,000 of the population put Afghans, with 77 convictions, at the top with a rate of 59 per 10,000 – 22.3 times that of Britons. They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.
Those labelled “unknown” are likely to largely include non-British nationals, taking the total number likely to have been committed by foreigners up to 23 per cent.
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This is despite census data showing foreign nationals make up just 9.3 per cent of the population.
Two nationalities – Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens, according to the data. Overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions.
The data, drawn from the police national computer, shows that there were 16,771 convictions for sexual offences carried out by someone with a known nationality between 2021 and 2023, and migrants accounted for 2,500 of these.
The highest numbers of sex offence convictions were accounted for by Romanians (987), Poles (208), Indians (148) and Pakistanis (144).
However, the rates, based on convictions per 10,000 of the population put Afghans, with 77 convictions, at the top with a rate of 59 per 10,000 – 22.3 times that of Britons. They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
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Britons accounted for 12,619 sex offence convictions, representing a rate of 2.66 per per 10,000 of their population in England and Wales.
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