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Michael Howie and Rachael Burford

Court of Appeal to review 'lenient' sentences handed to 15-year-old rapists

The sentences of two 15-year-old boys who raped two girls will go to the Court of Appeal after being reviewed by Attorney General Lord Hermer, Sir Keir Starmer announced on Tuesday.

The boys, who attacked the girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, were given non-custodial sentences by a judge at Southampton Crown Court who said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”.

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