A sentence of 12 years' imprisonment for diminished responsibility manslaughter is within range where the killing was premeditated, cold-blooded, involved stalking, breach of a domestic violence order, and was committed in front of children. The family or domestic context of a killing does not impose any rigid upper limit on the maximum penalty.
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