A sentence of 10 years imprisonment (with serious violent offence declaration) for vehicular manslaughter is within the range of a proper exercise of discretion where the offending involves prolonged dangerous driving at extreme speeds through residential streets, the offender was on his first day of parole release from a dangerous driving conviction, and the driving made injury or death virtually inevitable. The absence of evidence that a psychiatric condition contributed to the offending distinguishes the case from R v Clark, where reduced moral culpability due to bipolar disorder warranted a lower sentence.
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