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England’s highest court has overturned decades of precedent by issuing sweeping new rules for sentencing children. The landmark ruling bars immediate custody for under-18s in most cases and mandates trauma-informed assessments before any custodial sentence.
A 15-year-old Hampshire victim says she lives in terror after three teenage rapists received youth rehabilitation orders. The offenders, aged 13 and 14 at the time, face a Court of Appeal review amid public outrage.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has personally intervened to challenge the sentences given to five boys spared custody for the gang rape of two girls in Hampshire. The Court of Appeal will now review the case after Starmer's direct referral, marking a rare executive intervention in judicial matters.