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Former Minister Jess Phillips slams teen rapists’ sentences

5/22/2026

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Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips said the sentences were “unduly lenient.”
Three teenage boys received rehabilitation orders for rapes in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, with intensive supervision on the two older offenders after prosecutors said the assaults were filmed on phones and showed the boys laughing.
Phillips, who resigned as minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said the victims were two girls attacked in 2024 and 2025.

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Former Home Office minister Jess Phillips said the sentences were “unduly lenient.”
Three teenage boys received rehabilitation orders for rapes in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, with intensive supervision on the two older offenders after prosecutors said the assaults were filmed on phones and showed the boys laughing.
Phillips, who resigned as minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said the victims were two girls attacked in 2024 and 2025.