Ministers
insist the large influx of foreign nationals has
significant economic benefits, despite concerns
about the pressure on services.
 London,Wednesday, August 14, 2007
Foreigners
commit 20 per cent of crime in London, say
police MORE than one in five crimes
committed in London in the first six months of this
year were carried out by a foreign citizen, new
police figures have revealed. During the period there were 22,793 crimes in
the capital for which a foreign national has been
charged. More than a quarter were violent offences,
ranging from murder to assault. There were also
nearly 6,000 drug offences, 414 sex crimes, 522
robberies and almost 1,000 burglaries. The highest number of offences were carried out
by Poles, charged with 2,310 crimes between the
start of January and the end of June. Jamaicans, Irish nationals, Somalians and
Romanians - accused of more than 1,000 crimes - had
the next worst levels of offending. The figures, released by the Met under the
Freedom of Information Act, will fuel debate about
the Government's immigration policy. Ministers insist the large influx of foreign
nationals has significant economic benefits,
despite concerns about the pressure on
services. But shadow immigration minister Damien
Green described today's figures as
disturbing. "This is a fairly shocking side effect of the
lack of control of our borders and the sheer
numbers of people coming to Britain," he said.  The new statistics cover the number arrested and
charged for "notifiable offences" - those which are
more serious - and show a total of 106,678
crimes. Of these, 82,459 were committed by Britons with
a further 1,426 carried by people of "unknown"
nationality, leaving foreign nationals responsible
for the remaining offences. Seven EU members - Poland, Ireland, Romania,
Lithuania, France, Portugal and Italy, all of whose
citizens are free to travel to Britain - feature in
a list of the 20 nationalities responsible for the
highest number of offences. Among the Poles, 583 were charged with violent
crimes, 32 with sex offences, 201 with burglary,
635 with theft or handling and 626 with drug
offences. Drug crime accounted for around half the Italian
and French totals, while the Irish were responsible
for the highest level of burglary with 403 recorded
offences. The main crime
committed by Romanians, whose working rights in
the UK are severely restricted, was theft or
handling with 695 such offences. Among non-EU citizens, Jamaicans have the
highest level of offending with 1,750 crimes during
the six month period covered by the figures. Of these, 770 were drug offences, while there
were also 425 violent crimes, 28 sex offences and
42 robberies by Jamaican passport holders. The worst fraud total was recorded by Nigerians,
with 275 crimes, while Somalian nationals were also
among the most frequent offenders.  The
Met's decision to begin recording the nationality
of offenders follows a Home Office request made
after the row last year over the Government's
failure to consider more than 1,000 foreign
national prisoners for deportation.
Photo: Armed robber:
Andrew Lincoln The sadists
'addicted to violence'The problem of foreign nationals committing
crimes in London was highlighted when three armed
robbers - all from overseas - were jailed for life
for a "sadistic" campaign of violence against
commuters. The three - Jamaican Robert Lincoln, 18,
of Barking, Rwandan Sofian Majera, 22, of
Dagenham, and Portuguese national Peter
Frota, 19, used guns, knives and baseball bats
to kidnap and rob motorists and pedestrians. Their victims were stripped of valuables, beaten
and threatened with further violence unless they
handed over their pin numbers. One victim had his arm stamped on until it broke
and another was tortured with a cigarette lighter,
while others were threatened with having their eyes
gouged out or being burnt alive. The judge said the three, who had 36 previous
convictions between them, had been "addicted to
violence" as he jailed them last November. Frota's older brother Louis, 22, a one-time
trialist for Dagenham and Redbridge FC, was also in
court. He was jailed for four and a half years for
lesser offences. -
 
Four
thousand a week flee UK because of
immigration-
Churchill
called for quotas on influx of 'coloured
people':
"The colonial populations are resented in
Liverpool, Paddington and other areas by those
who come into contact with them. But those who
don't are apt to take a more liberal
view."
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