Rape sentences for teen boys unduly lenient, says Jess Phillips
Key takeaways
- Prosecutors said the assaults in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 2024 and 2025, were "brazenly filmed" on phones and showed the boys laughing and encouraging.
- The three boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO) and the two older ones were also made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS).
- "It seems unduly lenient to me and has wider public interest beyond just the case itself in the message that it sends," she said.
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Indy Almroth-Wright,South of Englandand Ella Kipling Getty Images Jess Phillips has offered to help the victims' families get the sentences reviewed Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips has condemned the "unduly lenient" non-custodial sentences of three teenage boys who raped two girls in separate attacks.
Prosecutors said the assaults in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 2024 and 2025, were "brazenly filmed" on phones and showed the boys laughing and encouraging. They later shared some of the footage online.
The three boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO) and the two older ones were also made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS).