A Wellington man has been sentenced to six years in prison over the fatal bashing of a Kapiti Coast teenager.
Manawanui Stewart, 26, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after 17-year-old Izak Millanta was found unconscious in a carpark near the Coastlands shopping area last August.
The teenager died in Wellington Hospital the following day.
Stewart, from the the Porirua suburb of Titahi Bay, was sentenced to six years in prison when he appeared before Justice Ronald Young in the High Court at Wellington today.
There were angry, emotional outbursts from the public gallery as Stewart was sentenced.