crime<\/a> means the real figures may be very different. Immigration has spiralled to all-time highs over the past few years and thousands have arrived on small boats.<\/p>\nChris Philp MP, shadow home secretary, said of MailOnline’s investigation: ‘These figures are deeply troubling.<\/p>\n
‘It is disturbing to see so many horrific crimes perpetrated by foreign offenders but also so many gaps in available data.<\/p>\n
‘The first duty of any government is to keep its citizens safe.<\/p>\n
‘Labour must heed our calls to deport all foreign criminals at once.’<\/p>\n
Robert Bates, from the Centre of Migration Control think tank, added: ‘Police forces are clearly recording this data.<\/p>\n
‘This is hugely important information, which could be used to greatly improve the manner in which our immigration system works.<\/p>\n
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Homeless Sudanese national Fawzi Omar (pictured) was jailed for four years after he sexually assaulted a woman in Exeter city centre last May<\/p>\n
‘But a political choice has been made by officials to try and ignore the evidence.’<\/p>\n
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said: ‘Not only is mass migration making us poorer, but this data proves it’s also making us dramatically less safe.<\/p>\n
‘Not only do we need to reduce overall migration radically, we also need to overhaul security vetting.’<\/p>\n
He added: ‘It should not be surprising that migrants from cultures with backward attitudes towards women are more likely to commit sexual crimes here in the UK.<\/p>\n
‘If we are serious about tackling violence against women and girls, we need an immigration system that takes that into account and puts the safety of the British people first.’<\/p>\n
Homeless Sudanese national Fawzi Omar was jailed for four years after he sexually assaulted a woman in Exeter city centre last May.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old, who was also given a further four years on extended licence, approached the victim, grabbed her and sexually assaulted her as she was walking home in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n
Another Sudanese national’s sexual assaults sparked a newspaper to warn locals about his predatory behaviour, with the bold headline: ‘This man keeps sexually assaulting women’.<\/p>\n
In January, Ali Hamad was jailed for eight months after being found guilty of assaulting ‘two lone females’ who were walking home after a night out in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
He touched one’s bare shoulder and slapped the other in the face three times.<\/p>\n
The assaults happened just a fortnight after he was sentenced to a 12-week jail term for masturbating on a busy London street and reaching through the seats of a bus to touch an off-duty female police officer’s bum.<\/p>\n
The Sudanese national, whose age sparked confusion in court, was described as ‘fairly rootless, with no job or relatives’ by a lawyer.<\/p>\n
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In January, Ali Hamad (pictured) was jailed for eight months after being found guilty of assaulting ‘two lone females’ who were walking home after a night out in Cardiff<\/p>\n
MailOnline calculated the league table using Freedom of Information (FOI) data from the 43 police forces in England and Wales.<\/p>\n
Greater Manchester Police, Warwickshire Police,\u00a0Northamptonshire Police and Dyfed-Powys Police did not provide data.<\/p>\n
Our probe covered all of 2024, although some forces gave figures for parts of January and February 2025.<\/p>\n
It solely looked at sexual offence arrests, which might also include child grooming.<\/p>\n
Forces did not explicitly state how they determined whether the arrested were foreign nationals.<\/p>\n
The FOI data was then plotted against the 2021 Census, which asked respondents about their country of birth and nationality.<\/p>\n
We only took into account those without British citizenship or a passport, and did not include dual British citizens.<\/p>\n
Only countries with at least 10 arrests were included.<\/p>\n
A handful of countries had no population data to compare against.<\/p>\n
Some forces didn’t give us an exact figure for nationalities with fewer than five arrests.<\/p>\n
For those, we chose to count them as just one. It means the actual number could be higher.<\/p>\n
Dual foreign nationals were also excluded from our probe.<\/p>\n
Due to the unavailability of official migrant crime statistics, the methodology used is one of the only ways to compare different nationalities.<\/p>\n
Using Afghanistan as an example, Census data shows there were 27,850 people born there without British citizenship living here in 2021.<\/p>\n
According to the FOIs, there were at least 281 arrests of Afghan nationals for sex offences during the 12-month spell. This equated to a rate of 1,009 per 100,000.<\/p>\n
Similar analyses by the Centre for Migration Control estimated a rate of around 50 per 100,000 for Britons.<\/p>\n
The higher rate of arrests for foreign nationalities could be down to a host of factors,\u00a0including the possibility that police might disproportionately target some groups.<\/p>\n
The data also does not consider sex of the alleged offender.<\/p>\n
An estimated 98 per cent of sexual offences are committed by men, meaning the ratios could be much higher if broken down.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Home Office declined to comment when presented with the data.<\/p>\n
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In terms of raw numbers, MailOnline can reveal more Indians were arrested for sexual offences than any other foreign nationality last year (785).<\/p>\n
But with an Indian-born non-British population of 437,566, it meant India ranked 40th in the league table.<\/p>\n
Romanians were the second most arrested nationality, with 668 over 12 months, followed by Poland with 649 citizens.<\/p>\n
Mr Bates added: ‘We know which nationalities are more likely to commit certain heinous crimes, yet our immigration system is presently doing nothing to try and stave off this crisis.<\/p>\n
‘The Home Office has a duty to keep the British public safe, something it is patently failing to do with its open-door policy.<\/p>\n
‘Coming to Britain is an immense privilege, and any foreign national found guilty of committing a crime should be removed from our country forthwith so they no longer blight the lives of the British public.’<\/p>\n
The Government has previously claimed to have returned more than 24,000 individuals with no right to be in country since Labour took power and a 16 per cent increase in foreign national offenders being removed in the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sudan tops the league table of sex offence arrests by nationality, ‘disturbing’ analysis suggests. Data laying bare the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2881,92,393,2396,8414,12,11144,1764,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-16488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-graphics","12":"tag-labour","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sudan","15":"tag-wales","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114330650766679870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}