A 29-year-old Douglas woman convicted of manslaughter has failed in an attempt to have her sentence reduced.
Arizona Devine Watterson was jailed for eight years for killing Billy Rogers, in a flat in Clifton Terrace in Douglas, in March 2008.
She was given an additional year for committing an act against public justice by naming someone else as responsible for Mr Rogers' death, before admitting to her role.
Watterson's appeal claimed the sentence was too long compared to those imposed in similar cases.
However, Deemster Kerruish and Judge of Appeal Tattersall concluded while some judges might have imposed a slightly shorter sentence for the manslaughter conviction, the total was not manifestly unjust.
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