Boys, 11, sentenced for trying to rape girl, 8

TWO 11-year-old boys, convicted of trying to rape an eight-year-old girl near her home last year, were given supervision orders yesterday.

The boys, believed to be the youngest children to stand trial for rape in Britain, were found guilty of assaulting the girl near her home in Hayes, west London, last October when they were just 10.

Prosecutors said the boys approached the girl when she was playing with a friend near her house. The girl was assaulted in a block of flats, a bin shed and a field.