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UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
Available official data show the proportion of reported rape offences that reach charge/summons is very low (about 2.8% in the year ending March 2025) and conviction rates for prosecutions vary by dat...
Recent reporting and official materials show active prosecutions in the UK for online hate and grossly offensive communications, with examples ranging from high‑profile social media convictions to man...
Available official statistics show that only a very small share of recorded rapes in England and Wales end with a charge or summons each year — around 2.6% in the year to March 2024 rising slightly to...
Available reporting and official briefings do not provide a single, definitive count of arrests made under the Online Safety Act (OSA) in 2024 for social‑media posts; government datasets are by offenc...
UK official systems do not provide a straightforward, nationally comparable statistic that directly contrasts crime rates of migrants versus native-born people, so public claims vary widely in accurac...
Lucy Connolly was jailed for a post on X that said “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it,” after the Southpor...
Official data and reporting show clear ethnic disparities at multiple points in the criminal‑justice process in London: arrest rates for Black people in London have been reported at far higher levels ...
Since 2020 the data show , producing a mixed picture: more cases are reaching charging decisions but a lower share of those flagged as rape lead to convictions. The trend reflects changes in police re...
The claim that Somali migrants have a distinct or unusually high crime rate in England is not directly supported by the provided materials; available documents do not supply specific, disaggregated cr...
The key UK laws governing online hate speech combine criminal offences that target stirring up hatred and threatening or abusive communications with a newer regulatory regime that places duties on onl...
As of 2021 and through 2025, criminal prosecutions for rape and most sexual assaults in England and Wales are not subject to a fixed statutory time bar: , although narrow historical exceptions exist f...
Official police‑recorded rape counts in England and Wales rose sharply after 2020, peaking in the year ending December 2024 and the year ending March 2025 within the published datasets; recorded count...
Available reporting shows a stark divergence between arrests for online communications and the number that progress to formal charges and convictions: a Times/FOI‑based figure of over 12,000 arrests i...
Recent high-profile UK prosecutions for online hate speech and related online offences cited in the available reporting include convictions and sentences linked to post-riot misinformation, deliberate...
Andrew Tate is not a criminally convicted rapist under UK law as of the late-September 2025 Crown Prosecution Service decision; the CPS concluded the available evidence did not meet the legal threshol...
Roughly one in ten arrests for offensive online communications in the UK proceed to conviction: government-linked figures show about 12,000 arrests per year in the 2021–23 period and roughly 1,119 sen...
Police-recorded rape and sexual offence reports in the UK have risen sharply over the last two decades even as the proportion of those reports that reach charging and conviction remains very low, prod...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) publishes operational data that includes ethnicity of suspects/defendants but states that its ethnicity collection followed the Criminal Justice System’s 16+1 self‑...