A few things strike me as apocryphal: 1.) That these rapists expected to be let off easy 2.) That their supporters expected them to be let off easy 3.) That because they were deported, they immediately determined the decision was racist.
This was a disgusting crime, and they should have been flogged. My goodness, it almost makes me wish that the ancestors of modern Danes, the Vikings, had put in an appearance. The court would not have only been wiping up saliva from the floor.
They should have been hung from a gibbet in Nyhavn.
They should have been lined up and beheaded!!