A man's early confession of guilt after helping to kill a tradie and shove his body into a metal box over a perceived $50,000 drug debt has sliced years off his jail term.

Darcy Schafer-Turner died after he was put in a chokehold, tied up with duct tape and held down by two men in a Sydney apartment on April 27, 2023.

Suffocating on his own vomit, the 22-year-old tradie was unable to be revived at the Peakhurst residence before his body was put into the box and dumped into a creek.

One of the attackers - Zachary Richard Fraser, 24 - was jailed on Wednesday for six-and-a-half years for manslaughter.

Fraser and another man - who fled the country to Germany and cannot be named for legal reasons - believed Mr Schafer-Turner owed a drug debt of $50,000.

They lured him to the unit, saying t

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