'Murder bid' youngsters recovering

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The nine-year-old and the 11-year-old are continuing their recovery the day after two young brothers faced Doncaster Youth Court accused of attempting to murder them.

A family friend said the elder of the two victims had spoken for the first time on Tuesday since the attack.

The brothers, aged 10 and 11 years old, were barely tall enough to see out of the dock when they appeared together flanked by security guards.

The two victims suffered a series of assaults, which allegedly included being burned with cigarettes, attacked with bricks and slashed with a knife.

The attack in the former pit village of Edlington, near Doncaster, last Saturday was described as "shocking" by both the Prime Minister and Home Secretary.

And on Tuesday the Crown Prosecution Service announced the two boys were being charged with attempted murder and robbery.

The accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were remanded into secure council accommodation until April 14.

The pair showed no emotion as they stood in the dock. The older boy began the hearing wearing a red England football shirt and his younger brother a grey Umbro T-shirt as the charges of attempted murder and robbery were read to them.

The two boys each face the same four charges. These are that they attempted to murder the two boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at Doncaster on April 4 and that they robbed each of the youngsters on the same date.