NEARLY 800 foreigners arrested in Britain since 2012 were killers, rapists or child abusers in their homeland, police revealed.
Experts fear many more have settled in the UK due to rules on free movement in Europe.
In addition, police checked the homeland backgrounds of fewer than half the 190,000 foreign criminals arrested in Britain last year.
According to figures, 250 people convicted of murder and manslaughter at home have been arrested since 2012 — 92 from Romania, 41 from Poland and 35 from Lithuania.
Alice Gross, from Hanwell, West London, was last year killed by Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns, who moved to the UK after serving a jail sentence for killing his wife.
There were 381 rapists — 141 from Romania, and 120 from Poland — and 147 child sex offenders, 58 of them Poles and 36 Lithuanians.
The figures emerged from a Freedom of Information Act request to ACRO, the Criminal Records Office.
Criminal justice expert Harry Fletcher, of the Digital Trust, said some EU member states lacked the “will” to check their own criminals — “perhaps as they think it is easier to export the problem”. He said: “We need a system where there is a duty to disclose convictions on entry.”
He said Britain should improve monitoring and checking of serious criminals. Ukip MEP Diane James said keeping free movement in the EU was “perpetuating the problem”.
Case study 1
ROMANIAN sex attacker George-Josif Blaj raped a woman at knifepoint weeks after arriving in Britain.
Blaj, 22, throttled his victim, 24, after breaking into her home in Northampton. He battered her with a spade when she screamed.
The drug abuser was admitted to the UK despite serving four years in Romania for rape and robbery. He was caged for 15 years.
Case study 2
FOUR Polish burglars who left lecturer Paul Kohler “unrecognisable” in a savage beating had convictions for violence at home.
Mr Kohler, 55, suffered multiple facial injuries at Wimbledon, South West London. His wife was also threatened.
Pawel Honc, 23, and Mariusz Tomaszewski, 32, got 19 years. Dawid Tychon, 29, and Oskar Pawlowichz, 29, got 13 years.
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