Shocking new data has revealed foreign criminals who swerved being deported committed 10,000 offences in just one year.
Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show a quarter of foreign criminals have gone on to reoffend in Britain after being released from prison and staying in the country.
According to the Telegaph, each of 3,325 foreign offenders accounted for three crimes on average, giving a total in the year March 2022 of 10,012 offences – a 25% rise on the figures for the previous year.
In total the MoJ data shows that foreign offenders in the UK were responsible for a staggering 40,000 crimes – ranging from knife possession and drug dealing, to murder.
The figures include crimes committed by criminals who returned to Britain and committed further offences after being deported.
Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, who extracted the data from the MoJ, told the Telegraph: “Everyone who commits a crime should be deported. Why are we tolerating this, particularly when we see the reoffending rates are so high.”
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