The deliberate leniency towards two teenage rapists sent chills down my spine

Every so often, a case comes along which shines a light on behaviour by the state that is so antithetical to any decent person, so deeply shocking, so revealing of a warped mindset, so insanely and utterly wrong-headed, that the heavens themselves cry out for justice. Judge Nicholas Rowland – I am naming him to shame him – decided not to jail two 15-year-old boys who had raped two teenage girls at knifepoint in two separate attacks.