Caustic soda rapists will have sentences reviewed (From Haringey Independent)

Caustic soda rapists will have sentences reviewed

9:21am Thursday 2nd July 2009 in

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THREE men who gang-raped a 16-year-old girl at an abandoned Tottenham property will have their sentences reviewed to decide if they were "unduly lenient".

Rogel McMorris, 18, Jason Brew, 19, and Hector Muaimba, 20, were jailed at London's Wood Green Crown Court on January 19 for their role in the horrific sex attack which took place at Antill Road.

Their victim, who had a mental age of just eight, had to have extensive plastic surgery and will be disfigured for life after McMorris doused her body in caustic soda after he and his friends finished raping her.

McMorris, of Antill Road, was jailed for nine years after being convicted of two rape counts and one of causing grievous bodily harm.

Brew, of High Cross Road, Tottenham, and Muaimba, of Guildford Road, Waltham Forest, east London, were both found guilty of one charge of rape.

They were each jailed for six years for attacking the schoolgirl.

Muaimba's received an additional sentence for a separate conviction for robbery.

Charities representing people with learning difficulties condemned the sentences as too short.

In court, several of the defendants claimed she was a 'dirty ho' and all denied raped took place.

The sentence review has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland.