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Government to review Fordingbridge teen boys' rape sentences
The law officers are urgently reviewing the case after judges gave youth rehabilitation orders to three boys convicted of raping two girls.
- The Attorney General's office is reviewing sentences handed to three boys who avoided custodial terms for raping two girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, after receiving "multiple" requests under the Unduly Lenient Scheme.
- At Southampton Crown Court, the teenagers received Youth Rehabilitation Orders for separate assaults in November 2024 and January 2025, with attackers filming the incidents and sharing them on social media.
- Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips criticized the sentences as sending a "bad message," while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch stated the boys received "no punishment at all."
- Judge Nicholas Rowland defended the rehabilitation-focused sentences, noting that "peer pressure played a large part in what went on," though the decision sparked significant public outrage.
- Law officers are "urgently reviewing" the case under the Unduly Lenient Scheme, with Government spokespeople stating they share the public's "shock at the details of this horrific case.
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Warrington GuardianMinister says rape victims ‘deserve justice’ after attackers spared jail
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Rape victim says decision to spare her attackers jail was like ‘rock in my face’
The boys, both aged 15, were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO) and made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS). A judge’s decision not to jail two teenage boys who raped two girls has been described by one of the victims as a “rock straight in my face”. The trial at Southampton Crown Court heard the girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the first attack on November 26 2024 and the second o…
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