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Gloucester cellar sex attack youths jailed for attack on boy | Gloucester cellar sex attack youths jailed for attack on boy |
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Two teenagers who carried out a "sadistic" sex attack on a boy, have been jailed for 10 years each. | Two teenagers who carried out a "sadistic" sex attack on a boy, have been jailed for 10 years each. |
Kane Lammin, 17, of Gloucester and Anthony Ford, 17, from Swindon, forced their victim to strip at knifepoint. | |
During the attack, in the cellar of a house in Gloucester, the 17-year-old victim had cement powder rubbed in his face and was burnt with a cigarette. | |
In sentencing the pair at Gloucester Crown Court, Judge William Hart lifted a media ban on identifying them. | |
'Psychological harm' | |
Ford and Lammin had already pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to serious sexual assaults. Ford also pleaded guilty to rape. | |
The judge described the ordeal the victim suffered in November 2012 as "painful, humiliating and generally terrifying". | |
"He suffered psychological harm which must be incalculable," he said. | "He suffered psychological harm which must be incalculable," he said. |
Ford and Lammin admitted that they had lured the victim down into a cellar of a house in Gloucester. | |
The pair used a broom handle to carry out attacks on the victim, the court was told. | |
Lammin mixed concrete powder and tile grout with a mop and pushed it into the victim's face, before he burned him with the cigarette. | |
'Designed to humiliate' | |
The victim managed to escape when the pair went upstairs and he ran naked to his mother's house. | |
Judge Hart told the court that Ford had said to a friend of the victim: "The kid's lucky because I wanted to kill him." | Judge Hart told the court that Ford had said to a friend of the victim: "The kid's lucky because I wanted to kill him." |
Prosecutor Virginia Cornwall told the court: "The victim suffered a sustained assault with both [Ford and Lammin] acting together. | |
"They used weapons and gratuitous degradation in a prolonged physical and sexual attack, designed to humiliate him." | |
A female friend of the victim, who did not wish to be identified, said she was "happy" with the sentence. | |
"They are utter scum. I hope they rot in hell for what they have done," she said. |