Police say Home Office data 'does not provide a true picture' of crime

Also had the highest increase in foreign born residents from 2001 to 2011

Highest in country, above London, with nearby Lincoln city ranking fifth

Boston had 15 cases per 100,000 people in the year up to September 2015

The murder capital of Britain is actually a sleepy Lincolnshire town - which has also seen the highest increase in migrants in the country.

Boston came top of a list of the local authorities with the most cases of murder, attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder per 100,000 people, recently released by the Home Office.

The town recorded 10 such cases in the year up to September 2015 - two homicides and eight attempted murders - meaning when adjusted for the population there were 15-per-100,000 people, placing it above the likes of London and Manchester.

Boston (pictured) came top of a list of the local authorities with the most cases of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder per 100,000 people, recently released by the home office

With 10 cases in the year up to September 2015 - including two homicides and eight attempted murders - Boston (pictured in March) placed above London and Manchester, with 15 per 100,000

The number of murders per 100,000 residents in the six most murderous authorities in Britain

It meant that Boston is the place where it was most likely someone would kill you, try to kill you or plot to kill you.

And census figures reveal it is also the authority with the highest increase in the number of foreign-born residents, which has caused controversy among residents for years.

Research by the Migration Observatory, based at Oxford University, showed that there was a 467 per cent increase in the number of people born abroad between censuses in 2001 and 2011.

In those ten years, the number jumped from 1,700 to 9,800, which has led a number of residents and local politicians to complain about the changing make-up of the town.

Among those to be charged for homicide-related offences are Aleksandr Kudriasov, 40, Andis Apsitis, 36, and Mark Gidevic, 27, who will soon face trial for two counts of attempted murder.

10 MOST MURDEROUS PLACES Boston: 10 cases - 15 per 100,000 City of London: 1 case - 12.4 per 100,000 Gloucester: 10 cases - 8 per 100,000 Blackpool: 11 cases - 7.8 per 100,000 Lincoln: 7 cases - 7.3 per 100,000 Manchester: 33 cases - 6.3 per 100,000 Salford: 15 cases - 6.2 per 100,000 Rochdale: 13 cases - 6.1 per 100,000 Hackney: 15 cases - 5.7 per 100,000 Amber Valley: 7 cases - 5.6 per 100,000 Advertisement

A fourth man, Andrej Kiselov, 39, was also charged with attempted murder and Marina Erte, 32, with assisting an offender.

The charges relate to attempts to kill Algis Likso and Ramunas Kaleckas at their home in Boston in September.

But Lincolnshire Police's Supt Paul Timmins said that the figures did not represent a true picture of crime in Lincolnshire.

'Using population data to compare crime rates will inevitably not provide the truest national picture but we do acknowledge that there have been a number of tragic incidents in Boston in recent years,' he told The Boston Target.

He added: 'In most cases, arrests, charges and convictions followed swiftly and Lincolnshire remains a low crime county with one of the lowest recorded rates for violent crime in the country.'

Second on the list of the most murderous towns in Britain was the City of London, where there were 12.4 murder-related offences per 100,000 people.