R v Slater - [1998] 3 NZLR 1

Criminal law — Sentence — Nineteen-year-old appellant injected with morphine 18-year-old girlfriend who died of an overdose — Both drug addicts — Manslaughter charge defended on basis of denial of facts so no credit available for plea of guilty — Factors to be considered including age and grief and sense of loss on part of accused — Criminal Justice Act 1985, s 7.