TWO BOYS WHO LAUGHED AS THEY TOOK TURNS RAPING 'PETRIFIED' GIRL, 15, FOUND GUILTY
Two boys have been found guilty of raping a "petrified" girl in an ordeal which lasted for 90 minutes. Southampton Crown Court heard two girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, with the first attack on November 26, 2024, and the second on January 17, 2025.
A 15-year-old boy was found guilty of one charge of rape and another 15-year-old defendant was convicted of three charges of rape in connection with the November incident. The first defendant was also found guilty of one count of rape and the second defendant was convicted of three charges of rape in connection with the incident in January.
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A third defendant, aged 14, was found guilty of two charges of rape by encouraging the second defendant in the January incident.
As the verdict against the 14-year-old was announced by the foreman of the jury, a man in the public gallery started crying and said, "That's my son", before he was asked to leave the court by the judge.
The first defendant was also found guilty of taking indecent photos of a child and the second defendant previously pleaded guilty to four charges of taking indecent photos of a child.
Jodie Mittel KC, prosecuting, told the trial the girl in the November incident, who was 15 at the time, had first come into contact with the first defendant when he sent her a friend request on Snapchat.
The prosecutor said the girl travelled from her home to visit him and after he had bought her a bottle of Lucozade they had been chatting in the park.
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The girl agreed to go to an underpass where she agreed to perform sex acts on the boy, who was then 14, until they were disturbed by passers-by, the court heard.
Ms Mittel said the girl became "scared and anxious" when the second defendant, who was 14 at the time, and a third boy who is not the third defendant, arrived and began "pressuring her and they recorded her" and they were "laughing".
She added: "The word she used to describe how she was feeling was petrified. (She) says she did agree but only because she didn't know what would happen if she didn't say yes."
The prosecutor said the boys and the girl went back to the underpass where the girl said she felt "cornered and trapped" as the two defendants raped her and the second defendant filmed.
Ms Mittel said the girl described how she felt "numb" and added: "She says she was shaking and saying the boys were just laughing and recording what happened."
She said the incident lasted around 90 minutes, adding: "She was feeling sick, felt like she was about to pass out, the other boys were recording whilst she sat in silence trying her best not to cry."
Ms Mittel said afterwards videos of the incident had been sent around and other people made jokes about her and she received messages calling her a "slag".
The complainant in the January incident, who was 14 at the time, told police that she had been with two friends before they went home leaving her with three other girls before the three defendants arrived, Ms Mittel said.
She said the complainant states that the first defendant threatened her with a knife and told her to leave her phone with an Airtag tracking device in a convenience store before making her walk to the recreation ground and a nearby field where the rape took place.
Ms Mittel said that CCTV footage did not show a knife and a girl witness had described the complainant saying that she needed to "ditch" her phone so her mother could not track her.
Judge Nicholas Rowland adjourned the case until a date to be set for sentencing reports to be prepared on the three defendants, and released them on conditional bail.
2026-03-05T14:25:39Z