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raping these poor young women." Explaining his sentencing decision at Southampton Crown Court on Thursday, Judge Nicholas Rowland said he would avoid "criminalising" the boys, telling them: "None of you need to go to prison
case in which three teenage boys were spared custodial sentences over the rape of two girls as "appalling". He added that it was "right" that the sentences given by a judge at Southampton Crown Court
Southampton crown court heard the girls were raped in two separate attacks in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the first attack on 26 November 2024 and the second on 17 January 2025. The boys, aged 15, were given