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Britain’s crime crisis is costing families at least £33 billion a year as the number of rape, sexual assault and fraud probes skyrocket, new research revealed.

Gangsters, career offenders, sex fiends, opportunistic thieves and violent robbers are costing taxpayers £90 million every day in police investigations, NHS care and court cases.

The alarming figure also includes the cost of property stolen or damaged, the overall economic impact and victim support services.

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “paralysed” by scandals and “too frightened to face down the soft-left activists who think criminals are victims”.

He said the cost of crime has increased by £616 million under Labour.

He told the Daily Express: “It’s never comfortable to put a price on crime, but these figures expose the scale of Labour’s failure. They measure not just money lost but lives damaged by a Labour Government that has let law and order fall apart.

“Keir Starmer does not have the backbone to stand up and take the difficult decisions Britain needs. Now he’s paralysed, too frightened to face down the soft-left activists who think criminals are victims and victims are statistics.

“Only the Conservative Party has a common sense, hard-edged plan to restore order, put 10,000 extra police officers on our streets and put fear back where it belongs – in the minds of criminals.”

The 499 murders in the year to September 2025 cost taxpayers £2.225 billion. This is down £146m from June 2024, when Labour took office.

But Britain’s rape crisis has also led to surging costs for the taxpayer.

The 74,265 allegations reported to police in the 12 months to September cost the UK £4 billion. Other sex offences, such as sexual assault, cost £1.2bn.

The Tories said the total cost of sex crimes hit £5.3bn in the year to September, up £600m since Sir Keir Starmer took office.

Each crime costs £54,000.

And the cost of fraud hit £2.6 billion, an increase of over £370 million since Labour came to office.

The cost of robbery alone exceeds £1.2 billion.

Official figures show 74,265 rapes were reported to police in the year to September, up from 69,492 in the previous 12 months.

Officers also recorded an 8% increase in sex offences, up from 198,373 to 214,816.

In total, the police recorded 6.7 million crimes.

And the Tories said the cost of 4.2 million of them is more than £33bn. Violent crime alone costs taxpayers almost £10bn, the party said.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “Under this government, violent crime is falling, knife-related homicides are down 27%, and homicide of all forms is at its lowest level in nearly 50 years.

“We have put 3,000 more police in neighbourhood roles in under a year, with a further 10,000 to follow by 2029. More than 63,000 knives have already been removed from Britain’s streets, and our new National Knife Crime Centre will support policing to deliver the government’s ambition to halve knife crime within a decade.”