New York woman jailed for 24 years for bias killing of Hindu

A New York woman who said she hates Hindus and killed a Hindu man by pushing him under a metro train has been sentenced to 24 years in prison, a local prosecutor has announced.

When Erika Menendez was arrested after killing Sunnando Sen in December 2012, she told the police: “I hate Muslims and the Hindus.”

State Supreme Court Justice Gregory L. Lasak, sentenced Menendez calling her actions “a particularly 

brutal homicide”.

Richard Brown, the district attorney for New York’s Queens borough, who announced the sentencing on Wednesday, said, “The defendant’s actions clearly show that she is a threat to society and deserving of today’s sentence.”

Menendez had earlier told a New York Post reporter that she had been attacking Hindus and Muslims.