Britain’s grooming gangs scandal has dominated the news this week, after the publication of Baroness Casey’s review on Monday. Now data from the Ministry of Justice has emerged showing that over a quarter of sex assaults on women – that have been successfully prosecuted in the UK – were committed by foreign nationals. It’s quite the stat…
The data, which came to light through Freedom of Information requests, revealed that of the 1,453 sex assault convictions on women in 2024, 26 per cent were foreign nationals. There are suggestions that the real total could be higher, given that those 8 per cent recorded as having perpetrators of ‘unknown’ nationalities could also include foreign nationals.
Casey’s review revealed, as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the Commons on Monday afternoon, that disproportionate numbers of Asian and Pakistani men were responsible for grooming gang abuse – while consecutive governments and authorities failed to act due to concerns about racism. More than that, the audit found that both foreign nationals and asylum seekers were involved in a ‘significant proportion’ of 12 active and ongoing police investigations into grooming gangs. The Centre for Migration Control think tank got hold of the data on sex crimes – which also found that foreign nationals for over 20 per cent of all rape convictions last year. Good heavens…
Baroness Casey did say, however, that while the report found an overrepresentation of Pakistani men in cases of child sexual exploitation, white men were more commonly suspects in cases of child abuse. The crossbench peer has also taken aim this week at the authorities who failed victims, the police and their ability to only ‘half-collect’ race data, and at politicians for the ‘politicisation’ of the issue. On that note, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken a pop at Tory leader Kemi Badenoch – claiming when her party was in power she did not raise the issue of grooming gangs ‘not once’, while he was ‘calling even then for mandatory reporting’ – while the Conservatives have claimed the issue is one of ‘borders, beyond criminal justice’. The Labour lot certainly has their work cut out…
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