A man has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for his role in the death of a close school friend whose body was found in a metal cabinet dumped in a creek on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Zachary Richard Fraser pled guilty to the manslaughter of Darcy Schafer-Turner at a unit in Peakhurst, in Sydney's south, in April 2023 which was linked to an apparent drug-related dispute.

The court heard Mr Schafer-Turner was placed in a chokehold by another man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, before Fraser helped place duct tape over his mouth and sat on his legs.

He lost consciousness and his direct cause of death was recorded as suffocation.

According to the agreed facts, Fraser believed his good friend owed the other man $50,000.

He had been told the plan was to "just make Darcy p

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