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Torture boys' sentences to be reviewed
Two brothers who were jailed for brutally torturing two young boys in South Yorkshire are to have their sentences reconsidered, it has been announced.
Attorney General Baroness Scotland will look at the prison terms handed down to the 11- and 12-year-olds to see if they were "unduly lenient".
The brothers, who have not been named, were handed indefinite terms last week with a minimum tariff of five years over the "appalling" attack in Edlington, near Doncaster, last April.
If Lady Scotland decides the sentences were too soft, she will refer them to the Court of Appeal and ask the judges to consider upping the terms handed down.
They will look again at the case and can decide to change the terms or leave them as they are.
The Attorney General is required to look at cases if asked to do so by a member of the public.
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A spokesman for the Attorney General's office said: "We have called for the papers in the case following a request that the Attorney General calls it in."
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