Outrage as teen rapists who avoided jail handed 'unduly lenient' sentences

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A review has been launched into "lenient" sentences given to three boys who avoided prison for their parts in the rape of two girls.The trial at Southampton Crown Court heard two girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the first attack on November 26, 2024 and the second on January 17, 2025.The three boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO), with the older pair also made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS).Now, former Home Office minister and Birmingham Yardley Labour MP Jess Phillips has criticised the sentence given to the youths, who avoided custodial sentences, as sending a "bad message".

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Ms Phillips said: "It seems unduly lenient to me and has wider public interest beyond just the case itself in the message that it sends.

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For those young women, going through a rape trial like this will not have been a simple thing to do, it will have been many, many months,...

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