Hit-and-run student pleads guilty
A STUDENT has pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of a young Edinburgh woman in a New York hit-and-run.
Julia Thomson, 24, from Morningside, was living in the city when she was struck by a car as she made her way home from a night out with friends in September last year.
Tenzing Bhutia has been told he will serve two years in prison when he is sentenced on June 9 in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.
Bhutia admitted he had been drinking when he struck the former Newcastle University student with his father's car.
The 21-year-old also admitted he knew he had hit something but kept driving.
Prosecutors say Bhutia's blood alcohol level was only a fraction over legal limit.
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