By Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent • July 2, 2026 • UK news
Trial judge found to have erred by giving boys youth rehabilitation orders for rape of two girls in Hampshire
A judge’s decision not to give two teenage boys custodial sentences for the rape of two girls was wrong s, the court of appeal has ruled. After a national outcry, the attorney general, Richard Hermer, referred the case to the court to consider whether the sentences given to the boys – identified only as X, Y and Z – were unduly lenient. The convictions related to the rape of two girls in separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January last year. In the first attack, a 15-year-old girl was raped by X and Y, both aged 14 at the time. In the second attack, all three boys took it in turns to rape a 14-year-old girl while the others encouraged and filmed the offending. On Thursday, the lady chief justice, Sue Carr, sitting at the high court in London with two other judges, said the trial judge erred by giving them all youth rehabilitation orders. The court of appeal ordered X and Y should each be detained for four years but did not increase Z’s sentence.
Source: The Guardian
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