Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe Court of Appeal imposed the new sentences after ruling that their initial non-custodial punishments were unduly lenient (CPS)Two teenage boys, now 15, have been sentenced to four years’ youth detention for raping and filming sex attacks on teenage girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire. The Court of Appeal imposed the new sentences after ruling that their initial non-custodial punishments were unduly lenient, following a public outcry. The Attorney General, Lord Hermer, referred the case, with his counsel arguing that detention was the only appropriate sentence given the severity of the crimes. Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, leading the judicial panel, stated that the boys' actions were so severe that there was "no other choice" but to impose detention. The sentence for a third boy, aged 14, who received an 18-month youth rehabilitation order for encouraging the rape of a second victim, was upheld by the court. In fullTeenage boys put behind bars after sentences ruled unduly lenient in Fordingbridge rape caseMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

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…

Three teenage boys who avoided custody after being convicted of raping two girls should have been detained, the Court of Appeal has been told.

One of boys has been made ‘pariah’ and his family has been advised to leave their home, the Court of Appeal heard

When three teenage boys were given community sentences for ten counts of rape against two teenage girls in two separate incidents in Hampshire, it sparked a public outcry.

Appeal Court judges Ms Justice Norton, Lord Justice Edis and Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr today ruled the sentences given to two rapist teenage boys were insufficient

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…

The case was referred to the Court of Appeal after public outcry over the boys’ sentences

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First judge found to have erred by giving 15-year-olds youth rehabilitation orders for rape of two girls in Hampshire

Following public outrage over lenient sentences, two UK teen rapists have been handed four-year detention terms by an appeals judge.

The two boys were originally given youth rehabilitation orders after raping two girls; videos of the attacks were shared online.

The two boys were originally given youth rehabilitation orders after raping two girls; videos of the attacks were shared online.

Two teenage boys who were found guilty of rape have been given four years in detention after the Court of Appeal over-ruled their initial non-custodial sentences.

The decision follows widespread public outrage, with the court saying the seriousness and repeated nature of the offences made custody "unavoidable."

The Court of Appeal in London sentences them to four years’ youth detention.

The 15-year-olds have now been sent to young offender institutions after carrying out violent sex attacks in an underpass in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

Two boys were sentenced to four years’ detention on Thursday after the Court of Appeal ruled their non-custodial sentences were ’unduly lenient’

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