John
01-26-2010, 08:36 PM
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.
They were told they would serve a minimum tariff of five years over the "appalling" attack in Edlington, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, last April.
If Lady Scotland decides the sentences were too soft, she will refer them to the Court of Appeal.
She would 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.
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."
During sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court last week details emerged of how the brothers lured the boys to secluded woodland before attacking them.
The victims were strangled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, stripped and forced to sexually abuse each other.
The older boy was seriously injured when a piece of ceramic sink was dropped on his head.
The incident has left both victims extremely traumatised.
Sentencing the brothers, Mr Justice Keith described the crimes as "truly exceptional".
They were carried out "for no reason other than that you got a real kick out of hurting and humiliating them", he said.
The brothers, who have not been named, were handed indefinite terms last week.
They were told they would serve a minimum tariff of five years over the "appalling" attack in Edlington, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, last April.
If Lady Scotland decides the sentences were too soft, she will refer them to the Court of Appeal.
She would 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.
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."
During sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court last week details emerged of how the brothers lured the boys to secluded woodland before attacking them.
The victims were strangled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, stripped and forced to sexually abuse each other.
The older boy was seriously injured when a piece of ceramic sink was dropped on his head.
The incident has left both victims extremely traumatised.
Sentencing the brothers, Mr Justice Keith described the crimes as "truly exceptional".
They were carried out "for no reason other than that you got a real kick out of hurting and humiliating them", he said.