A MAN who fractured his drug dealer's skull by hitting him on the head with a metal pole will spend at least six years in prison for his manslaughter.
His cousin, who was also involved in the attack, was sentenced to a minimum five years and two months.
Todd Carney and his cousin Luke Joseph Cambey, both aged 25, went to buy cannabis from Derrick Reid at his Sydney unit on the morning of January 29, 2006.
A scuffle ensued and Mr Reid was kicked and repeatedly hit with a metal pole while he stood in the unit and again after he fell on a bed.
He suffered factures to his head, cuts and fractures to two fingers, and bruising on his chest, shoulder, back, left flank, face, head and arms.
Mr Reid went to a neighbour and told them he had been bashed before being taken to hospital where he died later that evening.
Carney and Cambey were charged in 2008 and convicted of murder in 2010.
They successfully appealed and a jury later accepted their evidence the attack was in self-defence, convicting the pair of manslaughter in August this year.
In the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Monika Schmidt apologised to Mr Reid's family for a "regrettably protracted legal process".
"I thus particularly extend my sympathies to Mr Reid's family," she told the court.
"I hope that this sentencing exercise will now give them some peace of mind."
Justice Schmidt sentenced Carney to a non-parole period of six years and Cambey to five years and two months.
Both of their sentences will take into account the time they have already spent in prison.
Justice Schmidt noted that both men had a history of taking drugs and drinking.
She described their actions as "a grossly disproportionate response".
"This was a brutal killing, but one which was clearly to some extent the result of Todd Carney's deteriorating mental state," she said.
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