<strong>The Royal Courts of Justice, where the Court of Appeal sits.</strong> <strong>The Royal Courts of Justice, where the Court of Appeal sits.</strong> A PAIR of criminal brothers have had their sentences increased because their original sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.

Michael Corcoran and his brother Daniel were convicted of robberies at Reading Crown Court on May 1.

In one of their violent robberies a teenage victim was bitten by one of the brothers.

Michael, 28 of Barn Close, was sentenced to three years in prison and Daniel, 30 of Leaves Green, Crown Wood, was given a two year sentence.

Today the Court of Appeal increased their sentences to five years and three and a half years respectively.

In August last year the two brothers targeted a 13-year-old boy and stole his mobile phone.Just five hours later they set on three other teens.

One brother grabbed a phone, which the victim only released when he saw a knife being brandished.

The brother then demanded the phones from the other two. They punched and bit one of the teens to make them let go of their phone.

Whilst on bail for these crimes the brothers got on a train between London and Reading. As the train pulled into Wokingham they snatched a mobile phone and a handbag from two lone women on the train.

The Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP said: “I referred this case to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient because the original sentence failed to reflect the seriousness of the attack. It is important that those who commit violent street robberies are properly punished.

“I am pleased that the Court has today increased their sentences and I hope that this gives some reassurance to the public.

“These brothers acted together in a menacing way and furthermore they produced a knife with which to threaten their victims and used actual force in the attack.”