Cambridge students horrified over 'rape and torture' initiation ceremony question in exam

Students of Cambridge University were shocked after a question about an initiation ceremony involving a drunken orgy of oral sex, male rape and naked torture turned up in an exam paper.

The antics of a college drinking society - that even led to one humiliated new member's death - were described in the first-year law test.

Law students from the famed university's 23 colleges sat down in a lecture theatre at the Faculty of Law on Saturday morning to take the three-hour written exam.

However, minutes after more than 200 students finished their paper on criminal law, the social media was abuzz with messages of surprise and anger, the Sun reported.

The students had to choose two essay questions and two problem questions, which was designed to test their knowledge about a range of legal issues.

Question nine, which was in three parts, described three gruesome initiation rituals: a male student who is blindfolded is given oral sex by another man; another man undergoes an indecent assault with a bottle; and a male student dies from an infection after his pubic hair is ripped off taking with it a portion of his skin.

The question was what offences, if any, had been committed.