A VERY NASTY LITTLE CREW..........HANG THEM !!

THE TIMES.

19^th NOV , 1985

Black teenagers get 7 years for multiple rape

 

Six black teenagers, members of a Brixton gang called the Young Raiders, were sentenced to terms of up to seven years at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, for the repeated rape of two white schoolgirls. The deterrent sentences "must express society's horror of the mounting volume of man's inhumanity to women", the Recorder of London, Sir James Miskin, told the court. Relatives in the public gallery wept and gasped as the judge sentenced the four older gang members, who had each been found guilty of one rape charge against each girl, to seven years' youth custody, which entails transfer to prison at the age of 21. The two younger boys, both 14 at the time, who were found guilty of one rape charge each, were given three-year sentences under the Children and Young Persons Act. The Recorder said the girls, both 16, were walking home when the gang saw them in Brixton High Road, South London. They were robbed of money and jewellery, then taken down an alley to garages under a block of flats in the Stockwell Park estate where all the youths lived. They were raped on the concrete floor, one girl 30 times and her friend 15 times, the prosecution told the court. The girls denied having agreed to have "leisurely sex" and said they offered no resistance out of fear. The judge described the rapes as a "vile enterprise". Of the four given seven-year terms, Michael Thompson, aged 17, an Electrical engineer nicknamed "General Smiley" was said to be a gang leader who had convictions for robbery and dishonesty. He was given an additional six months for an unrelated theft offence. Clive Ballantyne, aged 17, unemployed, nicknamed "Private Gripper" had convictions for theft and burglary. He and Gary Linton, aged 18, a clerical officer nicknamed "star", were said to have helped the girls dress and leave after the rapes, but that was no mitigation; the recorder said. Gary McDonald, aged 18, unemployed, known as "flash", had never claimed, as had some of the others, the judge said, that the girls were willing partisipants. Turning to the two younger boys, who were each given three years, the Recorder said Christopher Springer, aged 14, had convictions for arson, dishonesty, burglary, and violence and Winston Edwards, aged 15, had a conviction for possessing a loaded airgun.