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1. We dismissed the applicant's application for leave to appeal against conviction on the 30th of March this year. Mr. van Buuren appears again this morning on behalf of his client in respect of the sentence. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the circumstances of the case which was a very serious case of child battering resulting in the death of one of twin children of the applicant and his wife. This court however accepted that the part taken by the applicant in that sorry affair was a passive