Exclusive: Campaigners and victims call for urgent change after ‘laughable’ sentences for youths convicted of rape

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.

The government is reviewing the "lenient" sentences given to three boys who avoided prison sentences for raping two girls in Hampshire — and the Voice of the Mirror supports this…

How much leeway does the judiciary have and can decisions be reconsidered?

Sentencing data shows that in the past five years nearly three out of every four under-18s convicted of rape avoided immediate custody.

The boys had lured two teenage girls to meet them, then raped them and filmed the attacks on their phones, with a knife used during the second assault.

Exclusive: Campaigners and victims call for urgent change after ‘laughable’ sentences for youths convicted of rape

A report claims three teenage boys - in three separate cases - avoided jail and were handed "laughable" £26 court fines after attacks on girls as young as 14

Teenage rapists are being let off with £26 fines after being convicted of attacking girls as young as 14.