Fordingbridge rape victim: “I’m the one being punished”
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The Times
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In January last year, a 14 year old girl we’re calling Olivia, was attacked by three boys in Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Two were aged 14 and one just 13 years old. One of the boys raped her while the other two filmed the attack. Just two months earlier, the older boys had attacked another girl in an underpass in the same town.
The three boys were convicted of ten rape charges related to the two attacks. But they were given rehabilitation orders rather than jail time. It’s a decision which has sparked outrage. On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced their sentence will now be reviewed.
Now, Olivia and her family have spoken to The Times about the trauma they've experienced and what they hope will happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | From the times and the Sunday times, this is the story. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:12.2 | I think for me, with what's happened, it is as good as a life sentence for my daughter. |
| 0:20.6 | And it will get easier with time, but it will never go away. |
| 0:26.7 | Those are the words of a father, the father of a teenage girl, who we're calling Olivia. |
| 0:34.5 | In January last year, when Olivia was just 14, she was attacked by three boys, two aged 14, one aged 13, near a recreation centre in Fordingbridge in Hampshire. |
| 0:48.9 | One of the boys raped her, while the other two filmed the attack. |
| 0:55.6 | They have to watch your daughter go through what she has, |
| 0:59.4 | to see her go from this bubbly, very outgoing girl to someone who's quite, |
| 1:06.3 | her confidence has gone. |
| 1:09.6 | Olivia wasn't the boy's first victim. |
| 1:12.7 | Just two months earlier, the older boys had raped another girl, aged 15, in an underpass |
| 1:19.0 | in the same town. |
| 1:20.8 | They'd filmed that too. |
| 1:23.3 | The three boys were convicted of a total of 10 rape charges related to the two attacks. |
| 1:30.2 | But in the sentencing hearing, Judge Nicholas Rowland told the boys that none of them would be going to jail. |
| 1:39.1 | The decision has sparked outrage across the nation. |
| 1:43.7 | Ground swell of anger over this case, |
| 1:45.4 | all the way from the courtroom to Westminster and all of the major political parties |
| 1:48.9 | have condemned this decision. |
| 1:50.8 | They are criminals. |
| 1:52.0 | There is no way that a youth offending rehabilitation order |
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