Mundill Mahil (left) has been sentenced to six years in a young offenders' institute after a revenge attack ended in Gagandip Singh's murder.

A medical student has been sentenced to six years in a young offenders' institution after a revenge attack ended in murder.

Mundill Mahil, from Chatham, was sentenced at the Old Bailey today after being convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

The 20-year-old, of Maidstone Road, was convicted alongside two other defendants found guilty over Gagandip Singh's killing.

Mahil, who attended Rochester Grammar School, suffered an attempted rape at the hands of Singh. But after she confided in a suitor, an elaborate plot was hatched - which ended in two London men beating the TV executive unconscious and leaving him to die in a burning car.

Amandeep Singh, a close friend of victim Mr Singh, said: "The family are in pieces - they are very upset.

"It is just outrageous that in this day and age people can carry out such a barbaric murder. It looks like justice has been served, but it hasn't.

"It would have satisfied me if all three had been locked up for life."

Prosecutors said Singh's killers had decided to "play God" after he tried to rape Mahil six months before he died.

Mahil lured Mr Singh down to her university house in Brighton in February last year, where he was set upon by Harvinder Shoker and Darren Peters.

The two men viciously beat Mr Singh, bundled him into the boot of a car and drove it to Blackheath, south east London, where they set it alight.

Addressing Mahil before passing sentences, Judge Worsley QC outlined her part in the murder.

He said: "You did not intend his death but you had decided that he should be seriously beaten. You witnessed the start of the attack and then you left the room. You heard him shout your name. You did nothing to save or protect him.

"You did not call the police although it was clear he had been silenced and driven away."

Shoker, 20, of Charlton Park Lane, Greenwich, was jailed for life with a minimum 22-year term today after being found guilty of murder.

Peters, 20, of Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, was sentenced to 12 years in a young offenders' institution after being found guilty of manslaughter.