A man who prompted an outcry about lenient sentencing for young offenders when he was given a non-custodial sentence after his conviction for raping a 13-year-old girl has had that conviction quashed.
Campaigners and politicians reacted with outrage in April after 22-year-old Sean Hogg was given a 270-hour community payback order by a judge, Lord Lake, who said that had he been older than 25 when he committed the offence he would have faced a four- or five-year custodial sentence.
