Three boys were handed youth rehabilitation orders by a judge and one put under surveillance after they were found guilty of raping two girls and filming the attacks

Two 14-year-old boys targeted one of their victims, 15, on Snapchat before luring her to an underpass where they laughed and filmed themselves as they raped her.

Two girls were raped in two separate incidents in a town in the New Forest

The three teenage boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, avoided prison sentences after raping two girls in separate incidents several weeks apart and filming the attacks

Lord Hermer will now consider the case and could send it back to court, which could decide to increase the sentences and send the boys to prison.

Three boys were handed youth rehabilitation orders by a judge and one put under surveillance after they were found guilty of raping two girls and filming the attacks

Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips and Kemi Badenoch have criticised ‘unduly lenient’ sentences

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The UK government is reviewing the non-custodial sentences handed to three teenage boys convicted in connection with the rape of two girls in Hampshire, after criticism from…

Boys, aged 15, given youth rehabilitation orders for two separate attacks against two girls in Hampshire

A teenage rape victim has criticised a court decision to spare three boys from prison after they were convicted over attacks on two girls in Hampshire, UK.