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Ahmed Afrah, just 18, was savagely beaten and then chased to death over a $400 drug debt.

Afrah was subjected to a severe, prolonged beating inside a MacLaren Street apartment, and fearing for his life, tried to escape out the balcony only to plunge 16 storeys to his death on May 15, 2017.

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Liban Gure, 31, lured the vulnerable drug addict to the apartment to settle a debt and was found guilty of manslaughter in September for triggering the deadly chain of events.

Superior Court Justice Robert Beaudoin told court that Afrah died in “unimaginable terror” and sentenced Gure to seven years on Friday.

Beaudoin noted the killer’s own words after the death: “Why did I let it get so far out of hand?”

Afrah was beaten by Gure first in the bathroom and then the hallway, where the drug dealer resorted to foot-stomping the teen.

Afrah was then forced to sit on a kitchen chair as one of his attackers looked around for duct tape. Fearing for his life, Afrah tried to escape off the 16th-floor balcony. He climbed onto an adjacent balcony and tried to scale down to safety, only to lose his grip.