Police target 40 foreign rapists living in London

 
6 June 2013
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Scotland Yard has identified more than 40 “predatory rapists” who are foreign nationals living in London.

Commander Steve Rodhouse said police were examining a range of tactics to target the 40 who were convicted of offences abroad.

They were identified by a new 100-strong squad launched to target foreign nationals committing crime in the capital.

A Jamaican national from Lewisham has now been deported after he was charged with a series of sexual offences but never convicted. He was arrested in 2011 over the gunpoint rape of a woman.

An inquiry by the Operation Nexus squad revealed that he had been charged with four other rapes in Britain but in each case had been acquitted.

Police discovered that he had carefully selected victims who were vulnerable because of their lifestyles and mental capacity.

Detectives worked with immigration officials to bring a case for the man to be deported on the grounds that he was a risk to the public.

The man was held under immigration powers in secure accommodation for 16 months while he appealed against deportation. He was finally removed last month.

Police say that around 28 per cent of everyone arrested in London is a foreign national, half of them from the European Union.

Police are submitting 30 to 50 cases a week to the UK Border Agency to either remove them from the country or restrict their movements.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said they were aiming to reach more than 100 cases a week to be submitted for removal.

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