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I strongly recommend reading the whole article, which gives a fuller account of the terrifying incident, but here’s a brief summary...
That's a fair enough counter-example - although, it's pretty clearly an outlier in regard to such cases.
The latter factor makes me wonder about specifics: The courts may have determined that a factor of five against one - even when the one was in a frenzy - made the use of an offensive weapon excessive (and the jury may have agreed with them). And also, how and when the wounds were caused (e.g. was the attacker restrained or on the ground when the stabbing occurred) may have been a factor.
We're viewing the incident through an overview of it's consequences, without precise information in regard to the events that led to those consequences - and that might change the overall tone somewhat.
Edit: Seems the deceased was stabbed in the back. Press reports claim all five wounds were to the back - although one legal opinion piece suggests this was the case in only one of the wounds. Whatever the case, I suspect that this was the aggravating factor. Statements made by the judge at the end of the case suggest that there was a bit more going on - but I can't find court reports that might indicate what those factors were. (There was a similar case a couple of years earlier where a claim of self-defence was effectively rejected - the dead man having been stabbed 12 times in the back.)
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