It does seem excessive when you consider the David Sconce case in the US, where sentences tend to be longer and tend to be consecutive sentences, rather than concurrent. It was covered in the docuseries "The Mortician".
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In 1989, Sconce was sentenced to five years in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations at $55 a body and hiring strongmen to assault three rival morticians. He was released in 1991 after serving two and a half years, but was sentenced to 25 years to life in 2013 after violating the lifetime probation a judge had imposed on him after a series of further offenses. He was released on parole in 2023.
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Less than 13 years total for a much bigger and callous set of crimes.