Three teenage boys laughed as they filmed themselves raping girls in an affluent town, a court has heard.
The schoolboys – aged 13, 14, and 14 at the time – filmed the alleged sex attacks on their phones in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
They are accused of raping two girls, aged 14 and 15, within the space of eight weeks in an underpass and a park. In both incidents, prosecutors said that the girls were ‘outnumbered’.
One girl described feeling ‘trapped’ and that her abusers ‘laughed’ while they raped her and filmed it.
The two alleged rapes both took place in November 2024 and in January 2025 in the town, which sits on the edge of Hampshire’s New Forest National Park.
The three boys – now aged 14, 15, and 15 – today stood trial at Southampton Crown Court charged with a total of eight counts of rape between them. They have pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
None of them, nor the two teenage girls, can be named for legal reasons.
Three teenage boys laughed as they filmed themselves raping girls in an affluent town, a court has heard, with one of the alleged attacks taking place at Fordingbridge Recreation Ground (pictured) in Hampshire
On the first occasion in November 2024, two boys, both 14 at the time, allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in an underpass alongside a third boy who is not on trial.
The girl met up with one of the boys because she believed that he was her boyfriend after striking up a conversation over Snapchat.
The girl spent time with him and consensually gave him oral sex, but when two other boys met up with them, she said she felt ‘uncomfortable’.
They took her to an underpass and two of the boys ‘pressured’ her to give them oral sex and then have sex with them, it was heard.
Prosecutor Jodie Mittell KC said: ‘[The 15-year-old girl] is significantly outnumbered, so it is just her and three boys.
The girl said in a police interview that she was ‘petrified’ and that she did not know how to get herself out of that situation. She said she felt ‘sick’ and was trying to think of what to do.
Ms Mittell KC said: ‘She told the police that all three of them were taller than her and she felt that it was the three boys against just her.
‘The word she used in describing that was petrified. She said she agreed because she didn’t know what would happen if she didn’t say yes.
‘She was so scared that she stopped listening to them and just tried to think what she could do to try to get out of that situation, but there was nothing she could do.
‘She felt cornered and trapped with three boys in the underpass.’
During the incident, the girl said the boys were ‘laughing’ at her and that she was silent because she was trying not to cry.
Footage of the incident was found by the police on one of the boys’ phones, which showed six videos and pictures of her giving oral sex.
The schoolboys are standing trial at Southampton Crown Court (pictured) where they have denied eight counts of rape between them
In the videos, the boys can be heard ‘laughing’ and one of the boys saying ‘don’t film it mush’.
On the second occasion, in January 2025, a 14-year-old girl alleged that she was pushed against a wall and threatened with a knife.
She said that she was told to drop her phone and AirTag in the Co-Op and go with the three boys to the Fordingbridge Recreation Ground.
The court heard that she tried to run away, but they said they would ‘kill her’ if she did it again.
The girl gave an interview to police after the incident.
She said that a few days after the alleged attack, people were calling her a ‘slag’ and saying it was her fault on social media because videos had been shared of her in the field.
Ms Mittell KC said: ‘[The 14-year-old girl] was being blamed publicly before she even started to explain what had happened to the police in her account.’
She said that this was a ‘similar’ case to the months before, where the girl had found herself ‘outnumbered’ by the boys.
She said: ‘[The 14-year-old girl] found herself outnumbered. We have a 14-year-old girl who makes an almost immediate report of rape.’
A witness has said the girl was not taken at knifepoint.
Two of the boys, both 15, deny four counts of rape in relation to the first alleged incident. One of them denies one count of making indecent photographs of a child.
Both boys face two further counts of rape in relation to the second incident. The third boy on trial, 14, denies two counts of rape in relation to the second incident.
The trial continues.
