Three Teenage Boys Receive Non-Custodial Sentences for Rape Convictions

Three teenage boys convicted of knife-point rape and other serious sexual offences against two teenage girls in Hampshire have received non-custodial sentences. The boys, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the offences, physically overpowered and sexually assaulted the girls, who were aged 14 and 15, in separate incidents two months apart.

The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced to youth rehabilitation orders ranging between 18 months and three years. One 15-year-old boy was convicted of three charges of rape against the two victims and four counts of taking indecent images.

He will be subject to 180 days of intensive supervision and surveillance.

The court heard that one defendant had an IQ in the bottom 1% of his age group and had been diagnosed with ADHD. Another defendant was also diagnosed with ADHD and longstanding anxiety, while the third was described as having a mild cognitive impairment.

Judge Nicholas Rowland told the defendants that none of them needed to go to prison. He said he wanted to support their reintegration into society and stressed the seriousness of the crimes, noting that the filming of the attacks made them more serious.

2025, a 14-year-old girl was threatened with a knife after becoming separated from her friends. She was forced to leave her mobile phone and AirTag in a shop and taken to a secluded field, where she was raped by two of the defendants as they filmed the incident.

After she reported the assault, an investigation identified a second victim, aged 15, who had been raped in November 2024 by two of the same defendants. She had travelled alone to meet one of the boys for what she thought would be their first date. The victim was raped in an underpass by the River Avon in Fordingbridge and a video of her 90-minute ordeal was shared on social media.