When three teenage boys were given community sentences for ten counts of rape against two teenage girls in two separate incidents in Hampshire, it sparked a public outcry.
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When three teenage boys were given community sentences for ten counts of rape against two teenage girls in two separate incidents in Hampshire, it sparked a public outcry.
The sentences were referred to the Court of Appeal by the attorney general, whose KC told the court today that detention was the “only appropriate sentence” and the judge had been “unduly lenient”.
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The two girls, aged 14 and 15 at the time, were raped by two 14-year-old boys weeks apart in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, with a…
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One of boys has been made ‘pariah’ and his family has been advised to leave their home, the Court of Appeal heard
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Three rapist teenage boys spared jailed over a series of attacks in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, pictured, should be re-sentenced…
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