‘We have a right to know if migrants are to blame for rising sexual offences – but the MoJ is hiding it from us,’ says Patrick Christys

We deserve to know how many asylum seekers have committed sexual offences in Britain.

We are paying for them. They live amongst us. We deserve to know, it is our right.

Yesterday we brought you information from Denmark. They publish violent crime conviction rates by nationality.

It shows that Danish nationals rank 42nd on the list of violent crime convictions. People from Kuwait, Tunisia, Somalia, Morocco, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria, they all rank much higher.

But what we want to know is about how many asylum seekers commit sexual offences in Britain. It’s important information. This is why we’re so keen to find out.

Researcher Jack Anderton has been through official data from the Office for National Statistics and other sources. This is what he found.

The North East has taken the highest number of asylum seekers per head of population. That is apparently 25.4 people per 10,000 as of December 2023. In the North East, since 2014, sexual offences have increased by around 500 per cent. Stalking and harassment appear to have increased by around 6,000 per cent.

It also appears that crimes such as shoplifting and burglary have remained relatively stagnant, so the big increase here seems to be sexual offences. Now it’s important to say they may well be no correlation at all here. It may be a complete coincidence that a large influx of asylum seekers has coincided with a large increase in sexual offences. There is no concrete proof that the two are linked, but we believe the British public has a right to know either way.

After all, this is part of the country where Kuwaiti and Syrian refugees have just been convicted for being part of a grooming gang that raped and abused a teenage girl.

Tory MP Neil O’Brien said the Home Office and Ministry of Justice hold the information, but they refuse to publish it. This makes us wonder – are they hiding something?

So we approached them ourselves. Now, initially, the Ministry of Justice sent us to the Home Office. The Home Office sent us back to the Ministry of Justice. This, by the way, happens all the time. So we submitted a Freedom of Information request asking the following questions: “How many asylum seekers are imprisoned for sexual offences or awaiting trial? How many people were they pending visa application or currently in prison for sexual offences? How many foreign nationals currently in prison are repeat offenders?”

Here is their response: “We can confirm the MoJ holds all of the information you have requested. However, to comply with the request as it currently stands, would exceed the cost limits set out in the FOIA. Information collated centrally by the MoJ does not include details of if a prisoner is an asylum seeker or has a pending visa application, nor does such information specifically indicate the full criminal history of any prisoner, whether foreign, national or not. This would require linkage to other collated data.”

So we are going to pursue this all the way here. At GB News, we think you have a right to know.

Now I will emphasise again, there may well not be a link between an increase in sexual offences and an increase in asylum seekers to a particular area, but we have to know for sure, don’t we?

We simply cannot continue in Britain having a debate about asylum policy, the same asylum policy that allows sexual criminals like alkaline attacker Abdul Ezedi to live in this country, without the public and our politicians being able to have the full facts at their disposal.

There may well be nothing to hide. So if there is nothing to hide, then tell us, because we’re going to keep asking.