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 the rape of 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