Sex offences in pubs
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003062/T
Version Date: 15/04/2025
Please could I have the numbers of reported sex offences in licensed pubs clubs and bars for the last 3 years. Please could you also detail which premises each incident happened.
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Searches were completed on Niche for all crimes with a Main Crime Group of ‘Sexual Offences’ between 01/01/2022 – 18/03/2025 and which contained one or more of the following:
- Location Subtype of ‘Public house’ or ‘Wine bar’ or ‘Private club’ or ‘Club licenced’
- Add. Building Name containing the keywords ‘Pub ’ or ‘Public House’ or ‘Free House’ or ‘ bar ’ or ‘nightclub’ or ‘licensed premises’
and which had the Occ. Add. Link Classification containing the word ‘occurrence’.
The data was manually reviewed for relevance.
|
SC Description |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
Total |
|
Administer substance with intent to stupefy / overpower to allow sexual activity (recordable) |
|
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
Assault a boy under 13 by touching - SOA 2003 (recordable) |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Exposure - SOA 2003 (recordable) |
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Offender 18 or over engage in penetrative sexual activity with a boy 13 to 15 - SOA 2003 (recordable) |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
Rape of a Female aged 16 or over (Sec 1 SOA 2003) |
3 |
1 |
2 |
|
6 |
|
Record image under clothing to observe another without consent (recordable) |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Sexual assault of a female 13 or over by penetration (S2, SOA 2003) |
2 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
|
Sexual assault of a female child under 13 (S3, SOA 2003) |
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
Sexual assault on a female (recordable) |
20 |
26 |
27 |
1 |
74 |
|
Sexual assault on a male aged 13 or over (Sec 3, SOA 2003) |
1 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
8 |
|
Voyeurism - recording a private act - SOA 2003 (recordable) |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Total |
29 |
36 |
35 |
5 |
105 |
|
Location Subtype |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Wine bar |
4 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
|
Public house |
10 |
14 |
14 |
1 |
|
Private club |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
Club licensed |
14 |
19 |
18 |
3 |