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Two teenage boys detained for rape as court of appeal overrules ‘lenient’ sentences
First judge found to have erred by giving 15-year-olds youth rehabilitation orders for rape of two girls in Hampshire Two 15-year-old boys who were spared custody for raping two girls have been sentenced to four years’ detention after the court of appeal ruled their sentences were “unduly lenient”. After a national outcry , the attorney general, Richard Hermer, referred the case to the court to consider whether the sentences given to three boys – identified only as X, Y and Z – were too light C…
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