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   Story begins Court of Appeal overturns lenient sentences for teenage rape convicts
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   Charged quote Court of Appeal overturns lenient sentences for teenage rape convicts

   The appeal judge today addressed the now 15-year-old, saying, what you both did was so bad that we decided we had no other choice but to make these sentences. The appeal judges also concluded that the trial judge had erred in his assessment of the seriousness of these offences, failing to take in the ages,

   Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 2 July 2026, 25:00-25:11

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   Charged quote Court of Appeal overturns lenient sentences for teenage rape convicts

   How did you feel when the trial judge said that he didn't want to criminalise the boys unnecessarily and didn't give enough weight to the impact on your daughter? Physically sick, especially when he starts his sentencing comments with, I commend these boys for their behaviour during the trial. That already set the tone for what was about to come.

   Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 2 July 2026, 26:03-26:11

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   Charged quote Court of Appeal overturns lenient sentences for teenage rape convicts

   Do you feel like today goes some way to changing that or do you still think there's a long way to go? There's a long way to go, there's a huge stigma on, and there has been for, as far as I can remember, girls and women being the ones to blame and it's still, they must feel the shame. Jasmine received taunts online, Jasmine received abusive

   Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 2 July 2026, 26:27-26:47

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   Charged quote Court of Appeal overturns lenient sentences for teenage rape convicts

   There's a long way to go, there's a huge stigma on, and there has been for, as far as I can remember, girls and women being the ones to blame and it's still, they must feel the shame. Jasmine received taunts online, Jasmine received abusive messages, she was called things walking down the school corridor, you know, it's still being, it was still being blamed onto her.

   Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 2 July 2026, 26:41-26:50

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Source: Channel 4, "Channel 4 News", Thursday 2 July 2026. Transcript excerpts and stills are shown only to support the analysis annotated alongside them - see our copyright basis. The full broadcast is not reproduced.

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