Foreign nationals were behind more than a quarter of sex crimes against women in Britain last year, official figures have revealed.
Some 26 per cent of the 1,453 sex assault convictions against women in 2024 were committed by people from overseas, according to a new analysis of Ministry of Justice data.
The figures, drawn from the Police National Computer, revealed an additional eight per cent of convictions involved offenders of “unknown” nationality, suggesting the true proportion could be even higher.
Indian nationals recorded the highest number of sex assault convictions among foreign offenders, with 38 cases, followed by Romanians and Poles with 27 each, Pakistanis with 20 and Afghans with 19.
Foreign nationals were behind more than a quarter of sex crimes against women in Britain last year
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While for rape specifically, Pakistanis, Nigerians and Romanians were the foreign nationalities responsible for the largest number of convictions, at 10 each.
Those three were followed by nationals from Sudan on nine, Afghanistan on eight and Indians on seven.
Despite making up just 10.9 per cent of the British populace, foreign nationals were more than twice as likely as the general population to be convicted of sex crimes.
The research, obtained by the Centre for Migration Control think tank, also showed foreign nationals accounted for over a fifth of all rape convictions last year, with 155 of 720 convictions involving foreign offenders and another 42 of unknown nationality.
Overall, there were 7,874 sexual offence convictions last year. Of those, 1,118, or one in seven (14.2 per cent), involved known foreign nationals.
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The Centre for Migration Control found that foreign nationals accounted for over a fifth of all rape convictions last year
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The data is based on people declaring their “primary” nationality, meaning they could be dual nationals with British citizenship.
It also specifies convictions, which means some of the offences could have been committed by the same individual.
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, said: “This data proves what the public has long suspected – we are importing crime.
“If the Government is serious about tackling violence against women and girls, it should apply much tougher immigration restrictions to migrants from high-risk countries.”
He also accused the “institutionally pro-migration” Government of refusing to publish migrant crime statistics because the party “doesn’t trust the public with the truth”.
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Rob Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, warned that “failure to introduce a proper migrant crime will only heighten concerns that the political class is concealing from us yet another scandal”.
A Government spokesman said in response that they had already banned foreign nationals who commit sexual offences from claiming asylum and would pursue further deportations.
The data comes just days after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledged to publish data on crimes and nationalities of foreign offenders facing deportation in the wake of Baroness Casey’s report.
Casey has also recommended that Cooper roll out the mandatory collection of ethnicity and nationality data for all child sex abuse suspects.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp linked the statistics to border security concerns, noting it had been the worst year on record for illegal Channel crossings and warning that “the lack of control at the border is fuelling the risk here”.