Judge Rowland
Posted on 05/23/2026 8:26:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
Two 14-year-old boys targeted one of their victims, 15, on Snapchat before luring her to an underpass where they laughed and filmed themselves as they raped her.
Two months later the pair, this time joined by a third boy aged just 13, gang-raped a second schoolgirl at knifepoint while again recording the attack on their phones as they goaded each other to degrade her further.
The trio - all from the traveller community - were convicted of rape in March following a five-week trial, with the two older boys also found guilty of taking indecent images of a child, relating to the recordings they made of their attacks.
But all three defendants were today handed youth rehabilitation orders instead of jail sentences during a hearing at Southampton Crown Court - as a judge told them 'none of you need to go to prison'.
The soft-touch sentence quickly provoked a furious backlash, with a senior Tory MP telling the Daily Mail it was 'a sickening case of soft justice'.
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Judge Nicholas Rowland told the boys: 'None of you need to go to prison today.'
He said the boys are 'very young', had low intelligence, a 'limited understanding of consent' and were susceptible to 'peer pressure'.
The judge also praised the boys for their conduct during the trial, saying 'I think of you as very young and none of you have been in any big trouble before.
'You have all done very well with the restrictions put in place throughout the trial. (The second boy) and (the third boy) your problems are quite bad.'
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp condemned the sentence, telling the Daily Mail: 'These despicable traveller youths should have been jailed. This is a sickening case of soft justice.
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Words fail.
Somethings are worth going to jail for. Liberals wouldnt be so stupid and evil if they could be held accountable for their acts.
Rise up John Bull! Cast off their yoke!!
Judge Nicholas Rowland should be ____ from the ____ until ____.
“all from the traveller community”...Gypsies......
The UK is finished, they cannot vote their way out of this.
Judge Rowland
“He said the boys are ‘very young’, had low intelligence, a ‘limited understanding of consent’ and were susceptible to ‘peer pressure’.”
The judge is the one with “low intelligence.”
If you commit an “adult crime” such as rape or murder, you should be charged as an adult. Period. None of this false compassion from the bench.
For those who don’t know, in England Traveller = Gypsie. Just so you know what the article means by “traveller community”,
I wish that the judge could receive the death penalty.
All of these judges have a history of being lenient on crime. Their record of leniency should be posted. Like a rap sheet.
That judge would not make it home unharmed in this country.
“very young’, had low intelligence, a ‘limited understanding of consent’ and were susceptible to ‘peer pressure”…….total bullshit!
I think the judge needs to be raped.
As a grandfather to several young ladies, I would have had a sentence in mind, irregardless of what the Judge said.
I know of two sites where the home…one a mobile home park and other is a RV camp ground. There are many more sites.
Wanna bet? We're following closely on the heels of the UK in terms of going down the path of "decency" in society. That same decency that has allowed the leftists to gain further control in this country.
We saw what people did when they were prevented from seeing an ill or dying parent during COVID: Not a damn thing but complain! It would same here under the same outcome as this trial.
“He said the boys are ‘very young’, had low intelligence, a ‘limited understanding of consent’ and were susceptible to ‘peer pressure’.”
Only a lad
You really can’t blame him
Only a lad
Society made him
Only a lad
He’s our responsibility
Oh, oh-woah-woah
Only a lad
He really couldn’t help it
Only a lad
He didn’t wanna do it
Only a lad
He’s underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused
Oh-oh-oh, oh-woah-woah-woah
Woah-woah-woah
Ohh, woah-woah-woah
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