Drug crime ‘ranked higher than manslaughter’

THE group representing the families of murder victims have said the criminal justice system ranks drug crime as more serious than manslaughter and has questioned the value placed on human life.

AdVIC said the Government now needed to introduce murder graded by degree, instead of manslaughter, in cases of death by violence.

The call comes after a man was sentenced last week to less than seven years for manslaughter while another man received more than double that sentence for drug-trafficking.