Foreigners commit nearly a quarter of sex crimes

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10-03-2025

Foreigners commit up to a quarter 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 15 per cent of sexual offences including rape were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023.
A further 8 per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.
Those labelled 'unknown' are likely to largely include non-British nationals, taking the total 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. Foreign nationals were overall 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. That is 22.3 times that of Britons. They were followed by Eritrea, which accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
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.
The disclosure, through FOIs obtained by the Centre for Migration Control, comes as Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, will on Monday announce new terror-style powers to tag and restrict the movements of dangerous foreign nationals to protect the public
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said the figures were shocking. 'We need to kick out all foreign national offenders. Yet immigration judges routinely allow dangerous foreign offenders to stay here on spurious human rights grounds – ignoring the rights of UK citizens to be protected.
'That is why we will today be tabling an amendment to the Borders Bill to disapply the Human Rights Act to immigration matters. It will then be much easier to kick out these dangerous foreign criminals who are responsible for so much crime.'
The Telegraph has previously revealed foreign national arrest rates but never before has there been data on the true rate of criminality based on convictions. The only government data is foreign prisoners and deportations by nationality, prompting allegations of 'institutional cover up' over migrant crime rates.
The data also reveals rates by nationality for convictions of all types of crimes. According to the new data, 872,488 convictions were recorded on the police national computer between 2021 and 2023, of which 833,522 had identifiable nationality information. Foreign nationals accounted for 104,000 but there were a further 38,966 where the nationality was 'unknown'.
This means that foreign nationals accounted for between one in eight (12.5 per cent) and as many as one in six (16.4 per cent) of convictions in England and Wales.
Foreign nationals were 69 per cent more likely than the British population to be convicted for drug crime and 25 per cent more likely for theft. For all crime types, they were 39 per cent more likely.
Immigration experts said a large number of those with 'unknown' nationalities were likely be foreign nationals who have a smaller footprint on existing ID systems, or were charged remotely and will be more reluctant to provide information that could affect their immigration status.
The data place Albanians at the top of the nationality crime league table by conviction rate.
Romanians accounted for the highest number of convictions at 15,701, followed by Poles (13,333) and Albanians (7,653). However, the rate for Albanians – at 4,028 per 10,000 of their census population in England and Wales – put them at the top of the crime league table with a rate 30 times that of British nationals' 136 per 10,000.
Albanians were followed by Moldova, Congo, Namibia and Somalia. Sixty-six nationalities have a higher conviction rate per 10,000 than Britons.
Foreign nationals accounted for between 8.8 per cent and 12 per cent of violent crime convictions between 2021 and 2023. The Congolese had the highest rate at 186 convictions per 10,000 of their population, 12 times the UK rate and ahead of Somalia at 129 per 10,000 and Afghanistan at 101 per 10,000, according to the data.
Up to 15,500, or 15 per cent of the total 104,000 convictions for drug-related offences were accounted for by foreign nationals with Albanians responsible for at least four times more than any other overseas nationality.
Foreign nationals were responsible for between 11.4 per cent and 12.6 per cent of convictions for theft in England and Wales between 2021 and 2023. Algerians were 18 times more likely to be convicted of theft as British citizens
Foreign nationals accounted for 12.5 per cent of weapon possession convictions – a rate 46 per cent higher than British citizens. Albanians were 14 times more likely to be convicted of weapons possession than British citizens.
Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said: 'These figures lay bare the cost of mass migration on our home, reflecting tens of thousands of destroyed lives and the loss of social capital. The swift removal of every foreign national who is convicted of an offence is a clear starting point for beginning to reverse the damage.
'Far more can and must be done by the Home Office to vet those individuals afforded the privilege of entering our country. It is their primary duty of government to keep the public safe.'
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, who laid amendments last year seeking to force the Government to publish such data, said: 'Not only is mass migration making us poorer, but this data proves it's also making us dramatically less safe. Not only do we need to reduce overall migration radically, we also need to overhaul security vetting.
'It should not be surprising that migrants from cultures with backwards attitudes towards women are more likely to commit sexual crimes here in the UK. If we are serious about tackling violence against women and girls we need an immigration system that takes that into account and puts the safety of the British people first.'
Home Office sources cautioned that the figures magnified the scale of foreign crime as migrants were disproportionately much younger than the UK population. Among groups such as Romanians, Poles and Albanians 80 per cent were 18 to 64, compared with only 60 per cent of British nationals.
They also said the population estimates from 2021 were dated and underestimated the size of key populations such as Afghans, Albanians and Iraqis as thousands of migrants from those nationalities had arrived after that date in small boats across the Channel.
A Home Office spokesman said: 'We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Any foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain's streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
'For the foreign criminals whose removal we are pursuing, but that we are presently unable to deport, we are introducing tougher restrictions, including the use of electronic tags, night-time curfews and exclusion zones. Breaching these conditions would be grounds for arrest and the individual could face imprisonment.'
By Rob Bates
It's fair to say that the Home Office is not held in the highest of esteem these days. Trust has been ground to an all-time low by a series of failures that have undermined our borders and allowed the relatively straightforward small boats issue to become a seemingly interminable crisis. A government department obsessed with the creation of diversity networks appears to have forgotten its primary responsibilities to the British public.
But however low your estimation of the Home Office, it is frankly not low enough. This is an organisation which, since 2020, has been running a visa system that it knows will put us all at risk.
Having cowed to pressure from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, it abandoned visa processing practices which made it harder for an individual from a high-risk nation to be awarded leave to enter the UK. The usual legal gambit of ECHR and Equality Act appeals were deployed by Left-wing lawyers to end, what they called, 'institutionally racist' practices which included putting certain countries on a so-called 'red list'. Many of the British public would describe the distinction between certain nationalities as 'common sense'.
It is a fact that not all migration is the same. There is vast variation in the economic contribution of different nationalities coming to the UK, and it is the same when it comes to the issue of criminality. But we now have an immigration system that processes a would-be migrant from, say, Afghanistan, in the same way as one from New Zealand, Canada, or Australia.
This is despite the conviction rate of Afghan nationals between 2021 and 2023 being 1,023 per 10,000 of the population, compared with just 17 convictions per 10,000 amongst the CANZUK population.
Never-before-seen data, released today by the Centre for Migration Control, shows that between 2021 and 2023 there were over 100,000 foreign nationals convicted for a serious crime in England and Wales, and nearly 70 nationalities with a criminality rate that is higher than the British public. We have been forced to endure thousands of socially destructive crimes for rape, violence, robbery, fraud, and drug offences that would simply not have blighted our communities were it not for mass migration.
Few politicians feel comfortable enough to identify the causal link between open borders and sexual assault, or the drug epidemic, or the ubiquity of theft. But they owe it to the public to do so. For each of these offences, the rate of conviction for foreign nationals is far, far higher than that of the British public.
For instance, foreign nationals commit sexual offences at a rate that is 70 per cent higher than the British public, and this is before we even take account of the shockingly low arrest and conviction rate for such crimes.
And the data clearly shows which types of migrants are more likely to commit these unforgivable assaults on women and girls. North Africans are convicted at a rate 6.6 times higher than Brits, Middle Easterners at a rate 3.8 times higher, and Sub-Saharan Africans at 2.6 times the rate.
But the Home Office remains idle, ignoring this vital data which it has at its disposal and doubling down on its 'come one, come all' immigration policy. Last year alone, over 54,000 long-term visas were awarded to individuals from nations with a conviction rate for sexual offences that is between 4.3 times and 22.2 times higher than the British population.
If we are not going to adjust our immigration policy, then we will need to get far tougher on deporting foreign convicts. Right now, the country is having to spend half a billion pounds a year to accommodate 10,000 foreign nationals in British prisons. Many are calling for their deportation, but we should not stop with those incarcerated for their crimes. Any individual invited into our country who breaks our laws should be a candidate for removal.
The elephant in the room cannot be ignored any longer. Our streets are objectively less safe. People now report petty crime to their followers on social media rather than to the police, drug gangs operated with impunity, and you are probably more likely to see a weapon on the streets of London than you are a police officer.
For those still campaigning for looser migration policies, simply turning a blind eye to these facts and instead sheepishly muttering about the economic payoffs, or the virtues of diversity, no longer cuts it. These figures tell the tale of tens of thousands of upended lives; of hundreds of millions, if not billions, being drained from the British economy; and of the heartbreaking destruction of social capital that is needed for national flourishment.
Rob Bates is research director at the Centre for Migration Control
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