REPORT: UK Migrants Arrested For Sex Crimes Three Times As Often As British Citizens


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John Oyewale Contributor
January 07, 2025 2:37 PM ET

More than three foreign nationals living in the U.K. are arrested for sexual offenses for every one British citizen arrested for the same offenses, The Telegraph reported Sunday.

Forty-one of the 43 police forces in England and Wales arrested more than 9,000 foreign nationals for alleged sexual offenses, 26.1% of the estimated 35,000 sexual offenses suspects, January-October 2024, the outlet reported, citing official U.K. crime statistics.

Foreign nationals were 3.5 times as likely to be sexual offenses suspects as British citizens, as there are nearly 165 arrests per 100,000 migrants in Britain against 48 per 100,000 Britons, according to the outlet.

Foreign nationals reportedly were twice as likely to be arrested for all crimes, with 131,000 of them arrested January-October 2024. They account for 16.1% of overall arrests despite comprising 9% of the population.

The first five nationals most likely to be arrested for all crimes were Albanians, Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians, and Congolese, respectively, the outlet reported. Pakistanis ranked 28th.

Reports of grooming or child sex crime gangs of mainly Pakistani origin and allegations of institutional coverup of their years-long alleged sex crimes have sparked an outcry for a public inquiry.



Senior British parliamentarians such as shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and opposition leader Kemi Badenoch have called for an inquiry or legislative changes but the Labour government appears to be slow to investigate official failings, according to The Telegraph.



Twenty-one men, mostly British citizens of Pakistani origin, were convicted over six trials for sexual offenses committed in Oxford between the late 1990s and late 2000s, the BBC reported. The convicts were part of a grooming gang that targeted British girls mostly from dysfunctional homes. The details of the abuses uncovered by the Operation Bullfinch trials of the suspects shocked the university city.

Another child grooming scandal in Oldham is the subject of more recent outcry. Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, refused to investigate the alleged crimes that spanned 2011–2014, deferring to the Oldham city council, according to The Telegraph. The alleged offenders are mostly Pakistani men.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in, posting on New Year’s Day of Phillips, “She deserves to be in prison.”

Seven women — including three of the over 1,000 victims of another sexual abuse ring in Telford — leaped to Phillips’s defense, reportedly writing to The Guardian that Phillips had “devoted her life to fighting for women and girls.”

Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer also hit back. “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims,” Starmer said, The Guardian reported. “They’re interested in themselves.”

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