The number of sexual offence convictions of foreign nationals has increased by 62 per cent in four years, according to new data revealing the scale of migrant crime.
Foreign nationals accounted for one in seven (14.1 per cent) of sexual offence convictions last year, including rapes, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data, drawn from the Police National Computer.
The rate of increase between 2021 and 2024 is higher than for British nationals, whose sexual offence convictions rose by 39.3 per cent over the same period, according to the figures, obtained under freedom of information laws.
