A sentence of two years imprisonment suspended after three months (one eighth of the head sentence) for dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, where the offender was a young foreign national with no prior history who pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity, was within the range of a sound sentencing discretion. A sentencing judge's reference to what would 'ordinarily' have been imposed is not necessarily the adoption of an impermissible starting point but may properly be understood as explaining the allowance made for mitigating factors.
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