Alex Versailles

So not so far, the West Midlands.

Yeah, so always out and about this week.

I've come from the West Midlands to be here at Hay today.

And next week we're going to be in Lincolnshire.

Just to be clear, Adam is definitely not a Gen Z-er.

Absolutely not.

Like, some way off it, I reckon.

We're going to get on with this episode of Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

Do we play music now or what do we do?

And it's Alex in the newscast tent at the Hay Festival.

Yeah, I mean, this story was about, as you say, a conviction where three teenage boys had been convicted of rape against two girls, but they'd been given youth rehabilitation orders instead of a custodial sentence.

Now, since this sentencing happened towards the end of last week,

There's just been some increasing traction around this, with a lot of people saying they don't think that that sentence was sufficient.

So at the moment, the Attorney General is going to review that and see whether or not it needs to be referred to the Court of Appeal to be looked at again.

Laura, Laura Kunzberg, had spoken to one of the girls at the heart of this, as you say, with her parents.

And it was just one of those interviews that I watched and listened to.

And I don't think anybody really could have listened to it without being quite personally moved because she gave a very brave and honest account of what she'd been through and the impact that had consequently had on her life.

And her parents also spoke very movingly about how they felt, not just about what had happened, but also about the decision by the judge not to impose a custodial sentence on the teenage boys involved.

Immediately after that, Darren Jones is sat in the studio and it is rare, I think it's fair to say, that you see a very senior member of the government kind of just react in quite a human way.