As long as Britain’s official orthodoxy remains that diversity is our ‘strength’, will the authorities ever be straight with the public about the realities of migration-linked crime?

This week, a Pakistani national, Sheraz Malik, was found guilty of two counts of raping an 18-year-old girl in Nottinghamshire. The woman had been drinking at a park in Sutton-in-Ashfield when she was attacked by Malik. She had already been taken to an isolated area and raped by another man he was with, who has yet to be identified. Malik followed proceedings at Birmingham Crown Court via a Pashto interpreter.

These crimes are sickening enough in themselves. But the secrecy raises a further troubling question: just how many more migration-linked offences are going on that are being kept from the public?

This horrific crime happened last year, but it was not until this week that it was legal to report that the perpetrator was an asylum seeker. Nottingham Crown Court had seen fit to place a reporting restriction on this crucial fact, with the defendant referred to in the press simply as a ‘man’.

Malik’s provenance is not incidental. It means the crime he committed was completely avoidable. The life-changing ordeal was visited on a vulnerable young victim by a man who never should have been in this country at all – but whom the Home Office was putting up in a hotel and giving a stipend of £50 a week. And yet for much of the time this case was in the news, we had been prevented........

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