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Peters was beaten and hit with a hammer, eventually losing consciousness. He woke up to find himself tied to a pole with a pillow case over his head. His hands were tied behind his back and his feet were bound. Over the course of four or five days, one or more people carved Indian Posse tattoos into his chest, back and arms, they also burned him with a propane torch. It took Crown prosecutor Frank Impey almost five minutes to detail to the court all the burns, bruising, cuts and scrapes that Peters suffered.

Court heard that Peters was eventually loaded into the trunk of a vehicle and heard people talking about killing him. The car smashed into a meridian, however, and Peters ran away, eventually ending up at St. Paul’s Hospital on April 3, 2016.

Neapetung was arrested on April 20, 2016 and later pleaded guilty to all charges before the case went to trial. The firearms offences relate to the ammunition and prohibited weapon he was carrying that day.

Peters was not in court Thursday and did not submit a victim impact statement. Impey relayed to the judge a telephone conversation Peters had with the author of Neapetung’s bail supervision report last May.

“He experienced recurring nightmares following this assault. He would wake up feeling scared, as though somebody was actually hitting him,” Impey said. He told the judge that unless Peters has surgery to fix the scarring on his body, he will never be able to remove his shirt in public without showing off the Indian Posse tattoos.