Two brothers who were jailed for torturing two boys are to have their sentences reconsidered.
British 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, South Yorkshire, last April.
The brothers, whose home life was described as 'toxic' in court, showed no emotion as their sentences were handed down.
The court had heard accounts of how the youngsters, then aged 10 and 11, lured their victims to a secluded spot and subjected them to 90 minutes of violence and sexual humiliation.
The nine-year-old and 11-year-old victims were strangled, hit with bricks, made to eat nettles, forced to strip and to sexually abuse each other.
Part of the attack was filmed by one of the brothers on a mobile phone. The scene was littered with bricks, sticks and stones used in the assaults, some of which were stained with blood.
