- Two teenage boys, now 15, have been sentenced to four years’ youth detention for raping and filming sex attacks on teenage girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
- The Court of Appeal imposed the new sentences after ruling that their initial non-custodial punishments were unduly lenient, following a public outcry.
- The Attorney General, Lord Hermer, referred the case, with his counsel arguing that detention was the only appropriate sentence given the severity of the crimes.
- Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, leading the judicial panel, stated that the boys' actions were so severe that there was "no other choice" but to impose detention.
- The sentence for a third boy, aged 14, who received an 18-month youth rehabilitation order for encouraging the rape of a second victim, was upheld by the court.
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