A KENYAN court slapped three men with harsher sentences yesterday for the brutal gang rape of a schoolgirl.

The court sentenced the three to 15 years in jail, an increase in their original punishment of cutting grass around the police station holding them.

“Today’s sentencing is sure to ripple across the nation,” said Kimberly Brown of campaign group Equality Now. “The fact that Liz’s case took so long to reach this point illustrates the injustices still suffered by survivors.”

Outrage over the original punishment prompted over 1.8 million people to sign an online petition demanding justice.

The 16-year-old was attacked, beaten and raped by six men as she returned from her grandfather’s funeral in 2013.

The gang dumped her in a deep sewage ditch and she suffered a broken back, caused either by the beating or by being hurled into the pit, as well as serious internal injuries from the rape.