BBC Politics • May 23, 2026 07:23

Attorney general to review teen boys' rape sentences

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The three teenagers were not given custodial sentences for their roles in the rape of two girls.

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The BBC has spoken to the parents of five of the 23 girls who survived the knife attack, who say a court order has rendered their children invisible.

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The boys filmed themselves laughing and encouraging each other as they raped girls in separate attacks.

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Three teenagers have avoided jail after the rape of two girls in Hampshire.

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Two men found guilty of a drive-by shooting at a wake in which a mother-of-two was murdered have been jailed for life.

10:31

A woman who murdered her neighbour in a "horrifying" hammer and knife attack has been jailed for at least 21 years.