In sentencing for manslaughter by unlawful and dangerous act, the circumstances of related offences involving different victims may properly form part of the background against which the seriousness of the manslaughter is assessed, without constituting impermissible double-counting. Sentencing statistics for manslaughter offences are of such limited assistance that they should be avoided. The decision whether to accumulate sentences or make them concurrent remains pre-eminently a matter of discretion for the sentencing judge.
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