Two teenage boys were given longer sentences after the Attorney General referred their cases to the Court of Appeal. The boys, aged 15, had been convicted of raping a 15‑year‑old girl in Fordingbridge on 26 November 2024 and a 14‑year‑old girl on 17 January 2025, and of filming the assaults. In a 2 July 2026 ruling, the Court increased their sentences to a four‑year Detention and Training Order and a whole‑life restraining order. The third offender, aged 14, had already received an eighteen‑month Youth Rehabilitation Order and a ten‑year restraining order; his sentence was left unchanged. The cases highlighted the use of the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
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