The statistical sample of sentences for manslaughter involving excessive self-defence is too small to establish a sentencing pattern or tariff. Sentencing for such offences depends on the particular circumstances of each case, and the wide discretion of the sentencing judge will not be disturbed absent demonstration that the sentence was unreasonable or plainly unjust.
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