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Figures from all 43 forces across England and Wales show 717 cases were recorded in 2023, and 572 in the first nine months of 2024.

They indicate that last year 63 per cent involved white suspects and 13.7 per cent Pakistani suspects.

British Pakistanis comprise 2.7 per cent of the population.

Police urged caution as ethnicity was recorded only in a small fraction of the cases.

Yesterday Labour bigwigs again clashed over whether to launch a new national inquiry