Ahmad Moslem Haqqani Rosli, 23, and Amyrul Nazmy Rusdi, 25, were each ordered by the Court of Appeal to serve 20 years in jail.

Another youth, aged 20, who was a teenager (aged 17) when the offence took place, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment.

The Court of Appeal’s three-member panel, comprising justices Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Lee Heng Cheong and Nordin Hassan, dismissed the appeal after finding that they did not have merit.

The men were on RM30,000 bail each pending disposal of their appeal in the Court of Appeal.

According to the charge sheet, the three were accused of gang-raping the girl — who was 13 years old at the time — near a beach in Bachok, Kelantan, at 3am on May 27, 2018.

They were found guilty and sentenced to jail by the sessions court on May 14, 2019, and the decision was also upheld by the High Court on Feb 3 last year.

In the court’s decision to uphold the sessions court and High Court decisions, Hadhariah said both the courts did not err in their decisions.

Lawyers Che Mohamad Zulkifly Jusoh and Asmadi Husin represented the youths while deputy public prosecutors Fauziah Daud and Aida Khairuleen Azli appeared for the prosecution.