The ringleader of a "violent and degrading" eight-and-a-half hour torture session will spend at least two years in an Australian jail before he is likely deported.
Sudanese national Clinton Saki, 27, will be eligible for parole in October 2021 after he beat a Canberra father with electrical cables, burned him with a clothing iron, singed his hair with a lighter and punched him in the mouth.
Justice David Mossop told the ACT Supreme Court on Wednesday the attack happened on October 2 last year after Saki ran out of his bedroom at a Moncrieff home and said: "F---, f---, what happened? Someone has stolen my money."
The judge said Saki pointed his finger at the victim and threatened him with a knife, but co-offenders Mary John Ayuel and Chol Bol Nyuon said they should strip the man naked.
The trio didn't find the missing cash, but Saki tied the man's hands behind his back anyway. The judge said Saki beat the Canberra father, threatened to "call the bikies" on him and cut off his leg and penis, and told him: "You'll be hung upside down in the garage."
The judge said when Ayuel threatened to stab the man, Saki responded: "We're not going to kill him in this way. Kill him in slow motion."
Ayuel was sentenced in August to more than two years' prison for her role in the assault, which included her strangling the victim with an electrical cable and jumping up and down on his head.
Nyuon punched and kicked the man at some point during the hours-long ordeal and was sentenced in June to about three-and-a-half months' jail, although he served nearly nine months on remand.
Justice Mossop on Wednesday said the victim would likely have permanent scarring and pigmentation issues because of the attack, and it had "affected his ability to move freely as he feels uncomfortable using public transport".
In a statement read aloud to the court on Tuesday, the victim said he felt like he was living in a nightmare and had struggled with depression, stress, and suicidal thoughts since the incident.
Justice Mossop said if he sentenced Saki to at least 12 months in prison, the 27-year-old would likely be deported back to Sudan, but it "clearly wasn't open" to structure a sentence to avoid that result.
The judge sentenced Saki to a total of nearly three-and-a-half years' prison for detaining the Canberra father and occasioning to him grievous bodily harm.
He backdated the sentence to account for the time Saki has already served behind bars, and gave him a non-parole period of two years.
Saki will also have to pay a $50 fine for possessing 38 grams of cannabis, which police found at the Moncrieff house during a search.
