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He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of breaking into a city residence on Dec. 3, 2016, with two accomplices and robbing the occupant, who was confined for up to 40 minutes, and an Oct. 26, 2017, charge of possession of a prohibited weapon.

Horner noted in both cases where Ibrahim and others confined their victims, “the motive was greed.”

She also took into account their actions were “gang-like behaviour.”

Crown prosecutors Ryan Persad and Jason Wuttunee had sought up to an additional 19 years for Ibrahim on top of the gang-rape term.

Persad said the kidnapping-related offences alone called for a sentence in the 10- to 13-year range.

In that case, Ibrahim lured Calgarian Ethan Doucette to a northeast residence under the pretence of buying cocaine.

Instead, Doucette was beaten with fists, a baseball bat and a bottle of booze, and had a firearm shot into the couch he was made to sit on, causing him to briefly pass out.

He was then duct-taped, moved to a bathroom, placed in the tub and had gasoline poured onto his face.

Doucette was also burned with cigarettes, was struck in the head with a shoe and kicked several times, before being taken to a second home, where he was tied to a chair and had a knife held to his neck.

On Friday, Justice John McCarthy handed Ibrahim a nine-year prison term for his involvement in a case where he and two friends forced a teenage girl to have sex with all three of them to get a ride home on a cold winter’s night.

After they’d violated her, they took her to a northeast residence instead of where she wanted to go, and further sexually assaulted her.

Before sentencing by Horner, Ibrahim addressed court.

“There are no words for the amount of remorse I feel for my inappropriate actions,” he said.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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