I crimini sessuali salgono a livelli record con una media di 588 ogni giorno, mentre i reati legati alla droga e ai taccheggi continuano ad aumentare nelle nuove statistiche ufficiali

“The ONS said the latest increase was also partly down to two new sexual offences relating to ‘sending or sharing intimate photographs or films’ which were brought in under the Online Safety Act in January 2024.”

These stats are always pointless without so much context.

If you would prefer the data straight from ONS here it is:

Sexual offences

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) self-completion module provides a more reliable measure of trends in sexual offences than police recorded crime data. The latest CSEW estimates available are for year ending (YE) March 2025 (see Section 2: Things you need to know about this release).

Around 1.9% of people aged 16 years and over had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences) (around 900,000 people) in the last year, as reported in the YE March 2025 survey. This represents no statistically significant change compared with the YE March 2024 survey.

When analysing long-term trends, we use the 16-to-59-years age range to give a comparable data time series. The prevalence of sexual assault among people aged 16 to 59 years has fluctuated between 1.5% and 3.0% over the last 20 years. Over the last 10 years, there has been an increase in sexual assault, after a previous decrease from YE March 2005 to YE March 2014. In the YE March 2025 survey, 2.4% of people aged 16 to 59 years had experienced sexual assault, compared with 1.7% in the YE March 2015 survey.

Police recorded sexual offences are not a good indicator of trends over time. Improvements in police recording practices, the introduction of new offences, and increased reporting by victims have contributed to increases in the level of offences in recent years. For further information, see Section 20: Data sources and quality.

There have been general increases in police recorded sexual offences over the last decade, largely because of improvements in police recording practices. There was an 8% increase in YE September 2025 (to 214,816 offences) compared with the previous year (198,373 offences). This is partly because of the introduction of two new sexual offences subcodes within the “other sexual offences” subgroup in January 2024. These subcodes relate to sending or sharing intimate photographs or films following the Online Safety Act 2023.

Within sexual offences, there was a 7% increase in rape offences (to 74,265 offences) compared with YE September 2024 (69,492 offences). Around 35% of all sexual offences recorded by the police in YE September 2025 were rape offences.

Further data related to sexual offences were released on 4 November 2025 in our Sexual offences in England and Wales overview: year ending March 2025 bulletin.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2025#sexual-offences

I Hope sex crimes are rising because people are more comfortable reporting them.