Youth (14) gets 12 years for rape

LONDON - A teenager who led a gang rape attack on an Austrian tourist as she went for a late night walk in central London was…

LONDON - A teenager who led a gang rape attack on an Austrian tourist as she went for a late night walk in central London was sentenced to 12 years detention by an Old Bailey judge yesterday.

Adrian Henry (14), of Finsbury Park, north London, was told by the Recorder of London, Sir Lawrence Verney, that he could not expect any mercy, despite pleading guilty to rape and not being directly involved in beating the woman before the rape took place. The judge also lifted an order that Henry could not be named.

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