Sudanese youth as young as 10 have committed 400 per cent more violent burglaries in just three years.
Federal Liberal MP Jason Wood, a former police detective who is heading a parliament inquiry into migration, has released terrifying crime data on Apex-linked gangs, who are known to particularly active in south-east Melbourne suburbs like Frankston and Pakenham.
It shows the number of Sudanese-born criminals, aged 10 to 18, committing aggravated burglary in Victoria surging from 20 in 2014-15 to 98 in 2016-17.
Sudanese youth as young as 10 are committing more violent burglaries. Liberal MP Jason Wood has released crime statistics only months after this brawl in a Melbourne barber shop
The Melbourne-based politician accused Labor of overlooking the data to avoid being labelled ‘racist’.
‘With South Sudanese hugely over represented in violent crimes in Victoria, the protection of all those living in Melbourne and Australia must come first,’ Mr Wood told the Sunday Herald Sun.
The Liberal backbencher is calling for the deportation of visa holders who commit home invasions.
The data he released also showed a 55 per cent increase in serious assaults by Sudanese youth, between 2014 and 2017, from 29 to 45.
Serious assaults committed by Sudanese youth rose by 55 per cent between 2014 and 2017 (including this alleged assault on a Melbourne bus in April)
Car stealing by these African youths had also doubled in the same time period, from 63 to 150.
Sudanese-born youths, aged between 10 and 18, are the most represented ethnic group when it comes to aggravated burglaries, car thefts and sexual offences, the newspaper report said.
Sudanese comprise just 0.11 per cent of Victoria’s population, but 4.8 per cent of aggravated burglary offenders.
Victoria’s Crime Statistics Agency last year released data showing aggravated home invasions by Sudanese-born youth, aged 10 to 18, had risen 10-fold between 2012 and 2016, to 40 incidents.
Apex-linked gangs are notorious around the Frankston, Sandringham and Cranbourne/Pakenham rail lines, the Victorian police revealed in 2016.
But there have also been incidents in Melbourne’s inner-west and western suburbs.
Liberal backbencher Jason Wood wants violent visa holders deported for aggravated home invasions
In June, a man was struck in the head with a tomahawk when a gang of men burst into a Melbourne barber shop and started brawling.
Up to 15 men, many who are believed to be of African descent, entered the shop in inner-city Footscray and began fighting.
In April, a gang of five Sudanese teenagers allegedly bashed their autistic classmate, in a horrific attack on a bus at Tarneit, in Melbourne’s west.
The 17-year-old student was travelling alone to the city centre, when five boys approached him and told him to hand over his mobile phone and new Nike shoes.