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Ahmed Afrah begged for his life as the teenage lovers beat him and then chased him to death over a lousy drug debt.

It was the night of May 15, 2017, and Afrah owed money to a 16-year-old dealer operating out of public-housing units in a MacLaren Street high rise.

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Inside the apartment, Afrah was first beaten in the bathroom, then in the front hall. It was a severe, prolonged beating that left the apartment walls spattered in blood.

Afrah, 18, screamed for help and begged his attackers to stop. He was then forced to sit in a kitchen chair while one of the teenagers looked around for duct tape.

Fearing for his life, Afrah made a run for it in the hopes of escaping out the balcony and scaling down to safety.

It was the 16-year-old dealer who chased him. Afrah started climbing over the balcony and lost his grip, plunging 16 storeys to his death.

These fresh details — described as horrific by Ontario Court Justice Marlyse Dumel — were revealed in an agreed statement of facts Monday when the two teenage lovers admitted their roles in the vicious beating that prompted the young man to attempt an escape from the balcony.