A sentencing judge may legitimately give significant weight to an offender's ongoing psychiatric illness (PTSD and clinical depression) resulting from the offence of dangerous driving occasioning death, even where serious aggravating features are present. A minimum term of 12 months (within a total sentence of 3 years) for dangerous driving occasioning death with high blood alcohol, considerable speed, and driving while disqualified was held to be at or near the bottom of the available range but not manifestly inadequate when the double jeopardy principle was applied.
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