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Sat 01 Jan 2010Brothers jailed for torturing two boys
TWO YOUNG brothers who sadistically tortured two boys last year in south Yorkshire and left them for dead have been jailed for a minimum of five years. The victims, aged nine and 11, suffered a 90-minute ordeal during which they were burnt with cigarettes and cut with knives.
The brothers, who cannot be named on the orders of Mr Justice Keith, were sentenced yesterday in Sheffield after the trial case, during which Doncaster social services were forced to issue an apology for their failings.
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