Data from the UK Department of Justice shows that Nigerians are one of the least represented nationalities in the country’s S3X crime convictions.
These numbers, telegraph In March, a detailed breakdown of S3X crime convictions by nationality was conducted between 2021 and 2023 through the Freedom of Information Act.
Records show that during the three-year period, foreign nationals were convicted, including one quarter of R@PE. According to population size adjustments, some nationalities are much more likely to be more likely than British citizens to commit such crimes. Afghans and Eritreans, in particular, are more than 20 times more likely to be involved in the S3X crime.
Overall, foreign nationals are 71% more likely to be convicted of S3X crimes than British citizens. The highest total convictions were Romanians, with 987, followed by the poles, with 208, Indians were 148 and Pakistanis, with 144.
However, the population-based conviction rate shows that Afghans have the highest conviction rate per 10,000 people. 22.3 times that of the British. Eritreans are followed by 59 convictions, with 53.6 out of every 10,000 people in the UK.
Nigerians, by contrast, are one of the nationalities whose conviction rates are lower than those of British citizens. Other African nations that are more prominent in the statistics include citizens of Congo, Namibia, Somalia, Algeria, Angola, Gambia, Tunisia and Libya.
The data further show regional differences, with North Africans convicted, 6.6 times higher than the British, Middle Eastern people being 3.8 times more guilty, and sub-Saharan Africans being 2.6 times more guilty than the British rate.
These figures sparked debate in the UK policy community, with some of the think tanks attributed to high rates of R@PE, violence, robbery, fraud and drug crime.
