Not racist to ask for facts on sex crimes by foreign arrivals

YOU WOULD think that in a country supposedly run by adults, with a bloated state apparatus and endless surveillance, the Government would be able to answer one basic question: how many asylum seekers have committed sexual offences in the UK?

- Esther Krakue

Apparently not. Both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office have admitted they don’t know. That’s not to say the numbers don’t exist — but collecting them would require manually trawling through thousands of case files.

And even then, there’s no guarantee the immigration status was ever recorded. It’s a staggering admission of incompetence. Or worse, a wilful refusal to know.

The British public is not stupid. The recent protests and anger in Epping and Nuneaton aren't driven by blind bigotry, but by sheer frustration. People are angry. Angry that strange men from alien cultures are being plonked into their communities. Angry that mothers have to worry about their daughters walking past hotels now used to house men with unknown backgrounds.

In Nuneaton, Warwickshire County Council leader George Finch has alleged that two men charged in connection with the rape of a 12-year-old girl are asylum seekers. In Epping, another asylum seeker was charged with sexually assaulting a minor, sparking protests.