THE NUMBER of foreign sex and violent offenders locked up in England and Wales has soared to record highs, damning new data reveals.
Official figures show 1,731 foreign-national sex offenders were in prison in June – up nearly 10 per cent in a year and almost three times the rate of British offenders.
PA‘They need to be kicked out of the country immediately. Starmer must suspend visas and aid until countries take back their nationals’, says Robert Jenrick[/caption]
Violent foreign inmates hit 3,250 – the highest since records began – with an 8.8 per cent annual rise, nearly double the 4.8 per cent for UK nationals.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “Instead of releasing criminals early to free up prison space, the Government must deport every single one of these foreign offenders.
“They need to be kicked out of the country immediately. Starmer must suspend visas and aid until countries take back their nationals.”
Albanians remain the largest foreign nationality in UK prisons, with 1,193 behind bars – many for drug offences.
Poles, Romanians and Irish make up the next biggest groups, followed by Lithuanians and Jamaicans.
Foreign nationals now account for more than one in 10 sex offenders and violent criminals in custody, and one in five drug offenders.
The new figures, published by the Ministry of Justice, follow months of pressure for greater transparency on the nationality of offenders.
Some of the protests at asylum hotels have been sparked by alleged sex attacks by migrants.
The Sun also recently revealed that four in ten people charged over sex attacks in London in the last seven years were foreign nationals.
Police figures showed these migrants were behind 2,809 of the 7,798 alleged crimes recorded in the capital since 2018 – despite making up less than a quarter of the city’s population.
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