Two men who abducted, drugged and robbed another man over a custody dispute last year have been jailed.
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The ACT Supreme Court on Monday heard the victim spent 29 hours believing he would be murdered after Glenn Stuart Dalton, 40, and Eliott John Fleet, 25, took him hostage on June 18.
The two men appeared for sentencing, having pleaded guilty to a number of offences over the incident.
Chief Justice Helen Murrell sentenced Dalton to three years and 10 months' jail on charges of forcible confinement and theft.
Fleet was ordered to serve four years and three months for forcible confinement, car theft and dangerous driving.
Both men will be eligible for parole in 2016.
The court heard the victim was the former partner of Dalton's ex-wife and might have become involved in a custody dispute between the pair.
The victim was taken hostage after being lured to a Braddon flat about 6.30am on June 18.
Dalton blocked his path when he tried to leave, telling the victim to "sit down, the only way out is over the balcony".
Fleet then said the victim would "look good with a cut across your face" and warned it would "be all over if it was up to me".
The man was then drugged, forced to hand over his bank details and driven to Manuka where Dalton withdrew $1140.
The man then awoke about 24 hours later when police arrived at the Bega Court unit.
The court heard officers were led to the Braddon flat after Fleet sped away from police when signalled to pull over about 9.30am.
Fleet ran a red light and drove on the footpath in order to evade capture.
Police tracked Fleet to the Reid flats where the victim mouthed the word "hostage" to signal he had been in danger.
Both offenders were arrested and have been in custody since June 19.
The pair initially fought the charges and were listed to stand trial earlier this year but switched their pleas to guilty in March.
During Monday's sentencing, the court heard both men had been on conditional liberty at the time of the offence.
Fleet had been paroled to attend a drug rehabilitation centre only a fortnight earlier but fled the centre after only one day.
Dalton had been on bail on unrelated offences.
The court heard the victim had moved interstate because of the anxiety he suffered as a result of the offence.
Chief Justice Murrell, in sentencing the pair, said the crime had been "terrifying" for the victim.
"It's no wonder [he] thought he was going to die," the judge said.
