Two of the three teenage boys convicted of the rape of two girls in Fordingbridge were spared jail partly because their intellect was judged to be low, the judge’s full remarks show.
Two 15-year-olds were given non-custodial sentences in May after raping two girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, by judge Nicholas Rowland at Southampton Crown Court, who said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”.
