Two teenage boys spared jail for raping two girls will have their sentences reviewed by the Court of Appeal after the attorney general suggested the punishment was too lenient, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.
The two 15-year-olds were convicted of raping two girls in separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, but were given non-custodial sentences by a judge at Southampton Crown Court, who said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”.
