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.

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.

A gang of teenage traveller boys who filmed themselves raping lone schoolgirls on two occasions have been spared jail. It seems from Judge Nicholas Rowland’s remarks that ‘none of…

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…

Teenage girl says decision not to jail her attacker was like a ‘rock straight in my face’, as the attorney general reviews the case

A teenage girl asked why her attackers were allowed to walk free while the Attorney General has been urged to review the 'too lenient' sentences passed on her rapists

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.

Dominic Grieve says people are ‘perfectly entitled’ to ask Richard Hermer for review of teenagers’ sentences