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A Saskatoon provincial court judge imposed an eight-year prison sentence on Friday for a crime he called “cruel and horrific.”

Kyle Landon Neapetung tied up Brenden Peters in a basement and tortured him for five days. He hit Peters on the head, cut and stabbed him, burnt him with a torch and carved his gang’s initials all over the man’s body.

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This was “gang-related revenge on an innocent person,” Judge Barry Singer said in his decision.

Neapetung, 29, pleaded guilty to unlawful confinement and aggravated assault for the attack, which began on March 30, 2016 and lasted until April 3. Court heard Peters was later able to escape from the trunk of a car after it crashed into a median. He ran to St. Paul’s Hospital, where he saw Neapetung, who told him not to say anything.

When police arrested Neapetung on the street later that month, he was carrying a sawed-off rifle and ammunition. He pleaded guilty to weapons charges, which resulted in a one-year sentence on top of the seven years he received for the assault and confinement.