LONDON - Seven youths who viciously gang raped an Austrian tourist before hurling her naked into a canal to swim for her life were sentenced to a total of 77 years' detention at the Old Bailey yesterday.
The Recorder of London, Sir Lawrence Verney QC, sentenced five teenagers to 11 years, one to 10 years and another to 12 years. None of the boys showed any emotion as the sentence was passed, but there were sobs from the public gallery which was packed with members of their families.
The judge lifted an order banning identification of four of the teenagers, but retained it in relation to three of them. Those who can now be named are Filipino born brothers Eduardo Agum (16) and Allan Agum (15), of Clapton Square, Hackney, east London; Cesar Cardenas (15), of Elm Street, Clerkenwell; and Nicholas Mavrides (16) of Rowstock Gardens, Camden.
The judge told the gang: "This case of rape is as horrifying and revolting as any could be." The 32 year old victim was not in court, but her husband sat in the public gallery.