Youths sentenced for gang rape

LONDON - Six members of teenage street posse yesterday were given youth detention sentences totalling 49 years after being convicted…

LONDON - Six members of teenage street posse yesterday were given youth detention sentences totalling 49 years after being convicted of a gang rape of two schoolgirls.

The Old Bailey heard the two 15 year old girls were taken by the gang to a house in Brixton, south London, where up to 14 teenage boys some of whom are still at large queued up to rape them.

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