DUI Driver in UK gets 9 year sentence - too light?

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Originally Posted by BBC Article A driver who killed two young brothers in a hit-and-run crash while high on cocaine has been jailed for nine years. Casper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, were struck while on their way to a Coventry park. Robert Brown, 53, who was doing more than 60mph, admitted causing the deaths by dangerous driving. Brown had 30 previous convictions for driving without a licence or insurance, [...] Brown and Harrison were both found to be four times over the limit for cocaine when the Ford Focus driven by Brown "ploughed" into the boys as they crossed Longfellow Road with their family.

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This was a driver high on cocaine, I imagine a similar sentence would have been handed down had the driver been over the alcohol limit.

A 9 year prison term for killing two young children, or any two people, seems far too light, even if you discount his previous record.
Involuntary manslaughter here usually gets you between 2-10 years in prison, depending on the details of the case. Maximum term is life.
Death by dangerous driving, carries a maximum term here of 14 years.

Should causing death by dangerous driving carry much stiffer penalties?

I think so. I think if you kill someone with a car when you are impaired from drink or drugs it should be a minimum 20 year term, and a life ban from driving.

Am I way off base?

Have the courts got this about right?

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