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 politicians and local officials who described the punishments as too lenient.

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

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

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 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.

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Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the sentences that saw two teenage boys spared jail after raping two girls will go to the Court of Appeal after being reviewed by the Attorney…

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PM says he found the case, which saw two teenage boys spared jail, ‘distressing as a father’

An appeals court will review a British judge's decision to spare three teenagers jail after they were convicted of rape, the UK attorney general said Tuesday, following public…