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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7772273.stm


Nine schoolboys have been sentenced for raping a 14-year-old girl.

The nine, all from east London, were given detention orders for the group attack which happened in Hackney, east London, on 30 April last year.

The girl was snatched by the gang from the street and dragged into the stairwell of a nearby block of flats.

Six boys were found guilty of rape, kidnap and false imprisonment, while three others admitted the same charges. They were all convicted on Friday.

Some of her attackers were 13 years old at the time, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

The girl was told by the Kingshold Boys gang leader, O'Neil Denton, 16, she should be raped for "insulting" him, the boys' trial had been told.

Sex offenders register

Denton warned the girl she would be stabbed if she did not do as she was told.

She finally escaped when a member of the public intervened.

Legal anonymity was lifted by Snaresbrook Crown Court on Denton, and six of his co-defendants - who are all from Hackney, Leytonstone, and Bethnal Green.

Denton and Weiled Ibraham, 17, admitted rape, kidnap and false imprisonment and must serve a minimum of three years and eight months before becoming eligible for parole.

They were told they would also remain on licence for life.

Yusuf Raymond, 16, pleaded guilty to the same charges, and received a nine-year sentence.

The six defendants who had denied the offences were also sentenced.

Jayden Ryan, 16, was sentenced to eight years, while Alexander Vanderpuije, 15, Jack Bartle, 16, and Cleon Brown, 15, each received six years.

Two other boys, aged 14 and 16, who cannot be named, did not physically attack the girl but helped to stop her escaping.

The 14-year-old was sentenced to two years and five months in secure local authority accommodation, while the 16-year-old received a detention order of three years and nine months.

All the boys were ordered to register as sex offenders indefinitely, apart from the youngest who was told he would have to sign for three and a half years.


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I heard this on the radio when I was driving home tonight. It's appalling.