UK Immigrant crime soars

Nearly 40 per cent in the number of Romanian criminals in Britain’s jails, even before the 1st of January landrush.

Nation       Inmates in               Inmates in       
              September 2011       January 2013                  

Poland           735                         807                                                   
Romania          454                         624                                                                       
Lithuania        445                         462                
Albania          163                         201              
Latvia           201                         183                
Slovakia          76                          98              
Estonia           31                          23                
Moldova            6                          10                
All Europeans  4,307                       4,441                 
All Prison Pop 87,501                     83,757       

British taxpayers are already paying more than £90million a year to fund the 2,400 Eastern Europeans currently in jail, at a rate of £38,000 per prisoner.

A fifth of murder and rape suspects are immigrants

A total of 91 foreign nationals were charged with murder and 406 accused of rape last year.

In London, of the 547 people charged with rape in the past 12 months, 174 were non-UK citizens.

They included immigrants from Afghanistan, Angola, Ghana, Macedonia, Russia, Zimbabwe and Chile.

Kent has the highest proportion of foreign murder suspects with 53 per cent being non-UK citizens, including four people from India and three from Romania.