Sentences of rapist teenagers who were spared jail being ‘urgently reviewed’

The trial at Southampton Crown Court heard two girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire (Picture: Google)

The sentences of three teenage boys who raped two lone young girls in separate attacks will be reviewed by the attorney general amid widespread anger at how ‘lenient’ they were.

The boys – aged 14 and 15 – were spared jail despite being convicted of a total of 11 rape charges between them.

Southampton Crown Court heard they recorded the attacks on their phones, laughing and egging each other on while outnumbering their ‘cornered and petrified’ victims.

During their sentencing hearing last week, one of the girls said: ‘All I want to do is die.’

Rather than a custodial sentence, the trio walked free from court after being given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO).

A government spokesman has s...