By LAURA ITALIANO
June 20, 2008
They don't scream for the young drunken driver's blood. They don't want him to rot in prison.
This is what the parents of Julia Thomson want instead: That anyone who thinks to drive drunk in New York City would first see her beautiful face flash before their eyes.
"Julia lost her life because somebody didn't take a taxi," grieving Cecilia Thomson said yesterday, after the sentencing of her 24-year-old daughter's DWI killer.
"It's up to the people of New York to say, 'No, we don't want the same thing that happened to this girl, in a pedestrian city, to happen to anyone else,' " the mother said by phone from the family's home in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tenzing Bhutia, 21, will serve only two years for the October 2007 hit-run, drunken-driving manslaughter, under a deal agreed to by Manhattan prosecutors.
