A US teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating to death an Indian-American computer scientist in 2010. New Brunswick State Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz sentenced Julian Daley to the maximum of 15 years in prison on charges of aggravated manslaughter and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault in the killing of Divyendu Sinha, the My Central New Jersey reported.
Daley was also sentenced to five years on an unrelated charge of burglary, which would run concurrent to the 15-year-sentence.
The judge said Daley must serve 85 per cent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.
Daley, who was 16 at the time of the crime, had entered into a plea bargain with the state in exchange for his testimony at other trials.
Daley was among five teenagers who had been charged in connection with the beating death of Sinha, his wife Alka and two sons as they were out for a late night walk on June 25, 2010, near their home.
A group of Old Bridge teens punched Sinha in the head, who died three days later at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.