Unduly Lenient: The Fordingbridge 3

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Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

3 Offenders, 2 Traumatised Victims, 1 Judge, 0 Days in Prison.

Aprox. 830 cases are submitted to the UK's Unduly Lenient Sentencing Scheme each year. Members of the public and those affected by the crimes committed can ask for the case to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal if the sentence doesn't match the public's expectation for the crime.

And every year, between 100-140 have their sentences increased.... but what happens to those who don't?

This is REAL.

If you want to report a sentence that you feel is unduly lenient from a Crown Court and you are in England or Wales, please see here:

https://www.gov.uk/ask-crown-court-sentence-review

If you have been affected by sexual abuse, please see the below organisations that offer support, advice and information:

https://www.thesurvivorstrust.org - For people who have been the victim of sexual abuse (UK)

https://www.rainn.org/ - Sexual Abuse Support USA

https://www.nasasv.org.au/support-directory - Sexual Abuse Support Australia

https://www.rcni.ie/useful-links/ - Sexual Abuse Support Ireland

If you need help or support with domestic abuse please get in touch with the following organisations:

https://havendas.org.uk/ - UK

https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/ - UK

https://mankind.org.uk/ - Support for male victims

https://safelives.org.uk/ - UK

https://www.victimsupportni.com/help-for-victims/domestic-violence/ - Northern Ireland

https://mapni.co.uk/ - Northern Ireland for men

https://sdvs.ie/ - Ireland

https://www.mensaid.ie/ - Ireland for men

https://www.lifewire.org/ - USA

https://www.thehotline.org/resources/men-can-be-victims-of-abuse-too/ - USA for men

https://www.rizeup.com.au/ - Australia

https://mensline.org.au/family-violence/- Australia

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion.
0:08.4	This episode contains references to child sexual assault, sexual assault and domestic violence.
0:15.0	So please take extra care whilst listening. In the UK, there are approximately 5,300 salaried judges working across a combination
0:25.8	of courts and tribunals. 3,667 are court judges in England and Wales, and as well as presiding
0:35.7	over criminal cases, they also hold the power of sentencing
0:40.2	in their hands. Over the last few weeks, a sentence was passed to three teenage boys that has angered
0:48.1	hundreds of thousands of people over the UK and beyond, with many questioning the judge's
0:53.6	intentions behind a sentence that many
0:56.8	are seeing as unduly lenient. In today's episode, we're looking at the decisions of judges in
1:03.8	some of the most violent and shocking cases in recent history, and the sentences that have caused
1:10.2	outrage across the nation.
1:13.4	I'm Naomi Channel and this is real.
1:59.9	I'm In January 2025, a 14-year-old girl was out with her friends.
2:04.4	They became separated, and so she started to make her way home.
2:12.6	She came across three boys. One was 13 and the other two were 14. As they approached her,
2:20.2	she saw a knife in one of their hands. They told her to leave her mobile phone and air tag in a nearby shop so her family could not track her movements and then they forced her to follow them
2:27.0	to a secluded area. Scared and frightened she did as she was told and soon she was alone with the three boys.
2:36.4	They turned on her. Two of the boys took turns in raping the young girl, whilst the other
2:43.1	one filmed the assault on a mobile phone, and verbally encouraged the abuse. They posted the footage online, and in a harrowin steel from the video,
2:54.4	the girl is seen lying on the ground with her face buried into her hands. They'd cut open the
3:01.4	trousers that she was wearing with a knife and they only stopped their attack when they believed that someone was coming towards them.
3:10.5	The girl was left shaking and traumatised, and she was discovered by someone who then called the police.
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