Teens who raped girl, 16, have sentences increased

Published on Thursday 2 July 2009 21:51

TWO young men involved in the gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl who was doused in caustic soda at the end of her "nightmare ordeal" had their sentences increased by the Court of Appeal yesterday.

Three judges in London ruled that the terms being served by Rogel McMorris, 18, and Jason Brew, 19, who were jailed at London's Wood Green Crown Court on 19 January, were "unduly lenient".

Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Simon and Mr Justice Blair, increased the term imposed in the case of Jamaican-born McMorris, of Tottenham, north London, who was convicted on two counts of rape and one of causing grievous bodily harm, from nine years to 14 years.

Co-defendant Brew, of Haringey, north London, who was found guilty of one charge of rape, had his six-year sentence raised to nine years.

The judges did not increase the six-year sentence imposed on Angolan immigrant Hector Muaimba, 21, of Waltham Forest, east London, who was also found guilty of one charge of rape.