Two of the convicted rapists are now aged 15, while the other is 14.<\/p>\n
One of the 15-year-olds was given a three-year YRO with 180 days of intensive supervision and surveillance for the rape of each of the two girls and two indecent images charges.<\/p>\n
The other 15-year-old was given the same sentence for three charges of rape against each of the victims and four counts of taking indecent images.<\/p>\n
The 14-year-old boy was given an 18-month YRO for charges of rape in the January 2025 attack by encouraging one of the other defendants.<\/p>\n
The boys would not have been sent to prison if they had been given custodial sentences. People who are aged under 18 serve custodial sentences in secure centres for children.<\/p>\n
Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick said justice had not been done in the case. “If a judge has made a very bad error, which I think has happened in this case, they should be accountable for it,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said on Friday she was “sickened” by the case, adding: “The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all.”<\/p>\n
Ben Maguire MP, Lib Dem Attorney general spokesperson, described the case as “utterly horrific”, adding that the review must be conducted “swiftly and decisively”.<\/p>\n
Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, said she was “deeply concerned” and that her office would reach out to the families to offer support.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want any young girl in this country to feel that can happen and not be addressed properly,” Dame Rachel said.<\/p>\n
A government spokesperson said: “We share the public’s shock at the details of this horrific case, and our thoughts are with the young victims during this distressing time.<\/p>\n
“The law officers are urgently reviewing the case with the utmost care and attention.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the convicted rapists are now aged 15, while the other is 14. One of the 15-year-olds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-601671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}