By Adam Pogrund, Daily Mail
Sudan tops the league table of sex offence arrests by nationality, ‘disturbing’ analysis suggests.
Data laying bare the scale of such alleged crimes by foreigners in England and Wales places Afghanistan second.
Eritrea, Iran and Iraq rounded out the top five, out of a total of 155 named countries.
Police made 8,500 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual offences including rape in 2024 and start of 2025.
More than 220 came from Sudan, according to figures obtained exclusively by MailOnline.
Latest Government statistics, from the 2021 Census, say only 18,650 Sudanese-born people without British citizenship live here.
This equates to a rate of around 1,200 arrests per 100,000 of the African country’s migrant population.
Because the supplied data only looks at arrests, it does not mean they were all convicted. Suspects may have also been nicked multiple times.
If Sudan’s rate was applied to the home-born population in England and Wales, it would equate to approximately 500,000 arrests.
Yet cops only nicked 44,000 people for sexual offences across all nationalities in the year to April 2024.
Huge gaps in the available data on the contentious topic of migrant crime 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.
Chris Philp MP, shadow home secretary, said of MailOnline’s investigation: ‘These figures are deeply troubling.
‘It is disturbing to see so many horrific crimes perpetrated by foreign offenders but also so many gaps in available data.
‘The first duty of any government is to keep its citizens safe.