<p>Rachael Szendrei, the mother of Laura Szendrei, gives the thumbs up as she and supporters leave court following verdict at the provincial court in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013.A judge has sentenced a young man who murdered 15-year-old Laura Szendrei in a suburban park near Vancouver three years ago as an adult, meaning he will receive life with no parole for at least seven years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward</p><p>A young man who was just days shy of his 18th birthday when he fatally beat a 15-year-old girl in a Delta, park has been sentenced as an adult to life in prison with no parole for at least seven years for second-degree murder.</p><p>The 21-year-old man pleaded guilty last year to killing Laura Szendrei in the suburban Vancouver park in September 2010. Despite the adult sentence, which would typically allow the media to publish the offender's name, his lawyer has indicated she plans to apply for a publication ban in the case.</p><p>Szendrei was walking through a forested area of the park when friends who had been waiting for her heard her screams.</p><p><a href="http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-100795-3-.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>