Sadiq Khan's "key crime" update has sparked anger as the Mayor did not include the sharp rise in recorded sexual offences.

The Mayor of London boasted on social media that "key crimes" are down in London, listing robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime.

Khan wrote: "The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there's still a long way to go before I’m satisfied.

"Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime."

GB News Star Alex Armstrong was quick to highlight the stark omission, which has risen since 2023/24, writing: "Interesting that Sadiq Khan doesn’t consider sexual assault as a 'key crime'. I wonder why?"

There were 26,803 police recorded sexual offences in London in 2024/25, compared with 24,334 in the previous reporting year, with a peak for sexual offences occurring in the most recent reporting year, Statista data shows.

Figures from the Metropolitan Police released in March show reported sexual offences increased by 7.4 per cent in the 12 months up to the end of January 2025, compared to the previous 12 months.

Sadiq Khan's 'key crime' update has sparked anger

This increase is on top of more than 8,800 rape incidents reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023, an average of 24 a day.

Charities have warned that the true extent of sexual offending will be far higher than figures suggest.

Social media were quick to criticise Khan's omission, with one user suggesting it was too inconvenient the narrative as "the numbers would be sky high".

There were 26,803 police recorded sexual offences in London in 2024/25, compared with 24,334 in the previous reporting year, with a peak for sexual offences occurring in the most recent reporting year, according to Statista data

Another questioned: "Why does @MayorofLondon switch off comments? Doesn't like criticism?"

A third added: "Are you still in denial that the grass is green?", while a fourth said: "He makes a mess and then makes it a bit less of a mess and hails it as a success."

In England and Wales during a calendar year spanning 2012/13, there were approximately 16,000 offences of rape recorded.

By 2024/25, this figure had ballooned to over 71,000, according to data cited by former Police Detective Peter Bleksley.

The Mayor of London boasted on social media that 'key crimes' are down in London

In his weekly column for GB News, Bleksley acknowledged that while this increase is partly due to improved methods of recording these crimes, during the same time period, the population grew by about four million, primarily due to immigration.

He wrote: "Many of these immigrants came here to work or study, but hundreds of thousands of them have found their way to our shores by hiding in the back of lorries, or by arriving on those wretched dinghies."

Bleksley added: It is a massive dereliction of duty by any Government to allow huge numbers of young undocumented men into our country when we don’t know the backgrounds, criminal histories, education, skills and the intentions of these people.

"It is also beyond reckless and dangerous stupidity, to expect men who have come from cultures diametrically opposed to ours, where women are treated as chattels, where they have none of the rights, freedoms and equality that are fundamental to our civil society, to fall immediately and completely into line with our culture and standards of acceptable behaviour, and to abide by our levels of respect for our man-made laws and one another."