Three rapist boys spared prison in a case which shocked the nation should have been jailed, the Court of Appeal was told today.
Tom Little KC, for the Attorney General, said detention was the ‘only appropriate sentence’ for the trio after a string of attacks on ‘vulnerable’ girls in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, a couple of months apart in 2024 and 2025.
Two boys aged 15, known as X and Y, and another aged 14, known as Z, were given non-custodial sentences in May for a combined 10 counts of rape and seven indecent image offences relating to two victims.
The two older boys were
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