The case was reviewed under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme after the boys were given youth rehabilitation orders by a judge who said he wanted to 'avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily'

What is the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and how does it work?

Three rapist teenage boys spared jailed over a series of attacks in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, pictured, should be re-sentenced and sent to detention, the Court of Appeal heard…