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Starmer: Right to review sentencing which saw teenage rapists spared prison

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Jaimi Joy/PA) - (PA Wire)

The rape case which saw two teenage boys spared jail is “appalling” and it is “right that law officers are urgently reviewing the sentences”, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Two girls were raped in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, by two 15-year-olds who 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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