Foreign nationals are responsible for more than a quarter of sex assaults on women successfully prosecuted in Britain despite being just 11% of the population, official figures obtained via FOI have revealed. The Telegraph has more.
Data from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), obtained under freedom of information laws, showed that 26% of the 1,453 sex assault convictions women last year were accounted for by foreign nationals.
A further 8% were committed by offenders of “unknown” nationalities, a category which will include some foreign nationals, meaning the overall proportion could be higher.
The data were drawn from the Police National Computer by the MoJ.
It comes a day after Baroness Casey’s review accused governments, police and councils of covering up the fact that a disproportionate number of Asian men were responsible for child sex grooming gangs, for fear of being called racist.
The review also revealed that asylum seekers and foreign nationals were involved in a “significant proportion” of 12 active police investigations into grooming gangs.
The new data will fuel demands for the Government to publish figures on the nationality, asylum status and visa routes of all convicted offenders, or risk fresh allegations of a cover-up.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has pledged to publish data on the crimes and nationalities of foreign offenders facing deportation, and accepted Baroness Casey’s recommendation for mandatory collection of ethnicity and nationality data for all child sex abuse suspects. Foreign sex offenders will be banned from claiming asylum. …
The figures show that foreign nationals were more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to be responsible for sex assaults. While they accounted for 26% of the assaults, foreign nationals represented 10.9% of the population.
The research also showed that foreign nationals accounted for more than a fifth of all rape convictions last year. Of the 720 convictions for “rape of a female aged 16 or over”, 155 were of foreign nationals and a further 42 were of an “unknown” nationality.
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