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The so-called mastermind in the 2010 killing of Barrhaven teen Michael Swan was sentenced Thursday to nine years in a case the judge called a deadly betrayal of friendship.

Mike Swan’s parents had waited seven years for Sam Tsega to apologize, but when he did they were offended by it, and even the judge noted on Thursday that it was too little, too late.

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Tsega spoke about himself, said he was still young at 25, and hoped to one day get married — all the things Mike Swan would never get to do.

Dale Swan thought Tsega was “rubbing it in.”

Swan was shot in the back after being forced to his knees at gunpoint by three masked intruders from Toronto. The Barrhaven teen, a popular athlete, was executed in his own bedroom over a bag of weed, some money and NHL video games in what Ontario Superior Court Justice Catherine Aitken said was a “tragic and senseless” killing driven by greed.

It was Tsega, now 25, who conspired with a group of friends — known as the Toronto 3 and all since convicted of murder. Tsega wasn’t at the armed home invasion, but he helped to plan it, from giving the trio Swan’s address, the layout of the house and, finally, the masks used in the botched robbery. Tsega even billed his onetime friend as an easy target, the court had heard.