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 General Lord Hermer for being too lenient.

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