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

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

Keir Starmer announces review after three boys were given youth rehabilitation orders for rape of two girls

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…

Three teenage boys who were convicted over the rape of two girls were last week allowed to walk out of a UK court without any custodial sentence, triggering a nationwide outcry.