vic, there is no need to mention the sex of the offenders that is sexist, it is more correct to say two people

But surely if I had written 'people' I could have been accused of being humanist and discriminatory against other hominids. I did not want to offend them.
On the other hand if I had said two primates, what would all the ungulates, arachnids, piscines etc. have thought.
Neither do I want to offend any single cell amoebae or the various species of moss and lichen.

I considered all these points very carefully before settling on calling them two men..... because, after all, that is what they are.