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Two Sunshine Coast men with significant criminal histories and histories of mental illness have been jailed for slitting a man's throat and nearly stabbing him to death in a public housing unit complex.
Yandina men Ryan John Morcom, 38, and Darren Christopher Jeffers, 54, were jailed in Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday for seven-and-a-half and nine years respectively for their part in the wounding of their 53-year-old at his Low St residence in the early hours of January 25, 2015.
Both men pleaded guilty to burglary in company at night and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The court heard both offenders were known to the victim, who Morcom owed money to, and who Jeffers, a paranoid schizophrenic, believed was trying to poison him with a cup of coffee by way of fulfilling two contracts on Jeffers' life put out by outlaw motorcycle gangs.