By ALICE CACHIA

LACK women are more than twice as likely to experience sexual assault as white women.

Those are the shocking findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, an annual survey that asks respondents about their experiences of crime.

The figures reveal that 4.0 per cent of white women aged between 15 and 69 said they’d experienced sexual assault - including attempts - in the year to March 2018.

That figure was 9.2 per cent among black, African, Caribbean and black British women.

The rate was more than twice as high as experienced by white women.

The proportion was 6.7 per cent among women of mixed or multiple ethnicities, while it stood at 3.6 per cent for Asian or Asian British women.

One per cent of women from other ethnic groups also said they’d experienced sexual assault sault over the same period.

When looking at specifical types of f sexual assault, 1.7 per cent of black women said they’d been raped or assaulted by penetration in the year to March 2018.

That is almost twice e as high as the 0.9 per cent nt of white women who’d ho’d experienced the same.

The rate was highest, however, among women of mixed or multiple ethnicities (1.8 per cent).

The figures also showed that black men were more likely to experience sexual assault th than any other eth ethnicity.

Th The 1.9 per cent that said sai they’d been victims in the year to March 2019 was higher than the 1.3 per cent of white men and 1.2 per cent of men overall.

Jabeer Butt, CEO of the Race Equality Foundation, said: “This is a concerning analysis.

“We know that the more vulnerable a person is, the more likely they are to be a victim of sexual assault.

“Moreover, black and minority ethnic people and particularly migrants have less trust in the police.

“We need to build on the work of many black and minority ethnic-led led women’s organisations to ensure real progress in the way sexual violence is tackled.”