Lady Scotland will consider whether the five-year minimum sentence imposed on brothers was unduly lenientThe attorney general is to review the sentences imposed on two young brothers who subjected a pair of boys to an attack involving “prolonged sadistic violence” and sexual humiliation in Edlington, South Yorkshire.Lady Scotland has called for the papers on the [...]
Lady Scotland will consider whether five-year minimum terms are too lenient for brothers, 11 and 12The attorney general is to reconsider the sentences given to two brothers last week for beating and torturing another pair of boys, her office said today.Lady Scotland will look at the terms given to the brothers, aged 11 and 12, [...]
The Attorney General is to review the minimum terms imposed on two brothers for brutally attacking two boys in Edlington.
Doncaster children’s services were already under fire following series of deaths of youngstersThe beleaguered local authority at the centre of the Edlington torture case controversy is to face an official investigation into its management and leadership, it was announced today.Doncaster council was criticised last week after the full horror emerged of how two brothers from [...]
The case of the two young boys tortured by a slightly older pair of brothers in South Yorkshire continues to provoke strong emotion.
What Britain’s struggling areas need is support and a sense that they’re a part of society tooSo, Dave, what happened to hugging a hoodie? Cameron has already been criticised for making political play of the Edlington case – where two brothers, now 11 and 12, were sentenced to an indefinite period, of a minimum of [...]
Child welfare campaigners are to demand the attorney general doubles the sentence for the brothers who tortured boysChild welfare campaigners are set to demand that the attorney general doubles the minimum jail term two young brothers will have to serve for beating and torturing another pair of boys to 10 years.The brothers, now aged 11 [...]
Children’s groups are urging an increase in the minimum term two brothers will have to serve for a torture attack in South Yorkshire.
Many of Saturday’s papers ask what drove two young brothers to torture two boys within an inch of their lives.
Young pair who subjected boys to 90-minute attack involving torture and sexual humiliation to serve at least five yearsA judge sentenced two young brothers who beat and tortured another pair of boys to indefinite detention today, as the head of child protection services in their home town apologised for the way staff had failed the [...]