A Melbourne man who gunned down a burglar at his factory while drunk and high on marijuana has been jailed for eight years.
Ivan Joe D'Angelo, 39, shot Wade Vandenberg in the forehead from a window in the loft of his Thomastown factory after waking to find three men trying to break through his gate.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry said D'Angelo should have reached for his phone to call police, rather than a gun.
"You must've realised even given the amount of alcohol and marijuana you consumed that what you were doing was extremely dangerous," Justice Lasry told D'Angelo on Thursday.
In the hours before shooting Mr Vandenberg on March 28 last year D'Angelo drank up to 42 bottles of beer and smoked 68 bongs of marijuana.
But Justice Lasry said D'Angelo was not seeking trouble, rather it had come to him when he committed his crime.
Justice Lasry sentenced D'Angelo to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of Mr Vandenberg with a minimum of four and a half years.
A jury in August found D'Angelo not guilty of murder but he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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