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Alarming figures uncovered in a Daily Star Sunday investigation reveal offences by females have rocketed in five years.

Greater Manchester Police has seen a 270% rise.

The figures from the Metropolitan Police have also more than doubled.

The Met revealed that 235 sexual offences were committed by females in 2011 to 2012, soaring to 473 by 2015 to 2016.

Greater Manchester Police saw the number of crimes rise from 45 to 174 over the same period.

The statistics, released under the Freedom of Information Act, include all types of sex crimes – from indecent exposure to sexually abusing someone with a mental disorder.

Recent high-profile cases offer a glimpse into the scale of the problem.

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Soldier Lance Corporal Hannah Heslop, 25, made headlines earlier this year for sexually abusing a straight female colleague.

Heslop accompanied her victim back to Normandy Barracks in Leconfield, East Yorks, after a night out and abused her while she was sleeping.

Heslop was sacked from the Army and jailed for seven years.

Another sex predator, Gayle Newland, 25, was jailed before Christmas for duping her friend into thinking she was a man.

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She had sex with her using a prosthetic penis.

Newland, of Willaston, Cheshire, took on the alter-ego Kye Fortune and posed as a man on Facebook to prey on her victim, also 25.

She disguised her gender by flattening her breasts with tape, wore a swimsuit to smooth out her body curves and even made her voice sound deeper.

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Newland persuaded her victim to wear a blindfold when they were together and the couple had sex 10 times.

But the woman discovered what Newland was up to when she removed the mask and found her using the fake penis.

Newland was sent down for eight years but last month won the right to appeal against her sentence.