Two people charged over the shooting death of a man in the Scenic Rim more than three years ago will be released from custody after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Michael Menzel, 48, died after being shot twice during a home invasion in Gleneagle in October 2019.
At the time four men and a woman — who were all known to Mr Menzel — were charged with his murder, including 25-year-old Phoenix Nugent and 32-year-old Matthew David Taylor.
On Monday, the pair pleaded guilty to the downgraded offence in Brisbane's Supreme Court.
The prosecution accepted Nugent and Matthew had been a party to the killing, but neither was the shooter.
Nugent and Taylor also admitted to a string of other charges, including assault and burglary.
During a sentencing hearing the court heard the group had hatched a plan to rob Mr Menzel in a bid to recover a drug debt owed to one of the involved parties.
The court heard three of the men and Nugent stormed the house wearing "menacing" Halloween masks while armed with a machete, hammer, bat and sawn-off shotgun.
Taylor did not go into the home, but the court heard he knew the group were in possession of weapons and that he also torched a stolen car the group had travelled in.
During the robbery, another man who lived at the home was also assaulted. After Mr Menzel was shot in the leg and hand, all of the alleged offenders fled the area.
Mr Menzel's teenage daughter submitted a victim impact statement to the court, describing the emotional toll her father's death had taken.
She spoke of being orphaned and continuous night terrors, that often wake her up screaming, crying and struggling to breathe.
When determining punishment for the offenders, Justice Thomas Bradley told the court sentencing for manslaughter was "notoriously difficult".
"Manslaughter is quite an odd offence because it can be committed an infinite number of ways," he said.
Justice Bradley took into consideration the role both Nugent and Taylor played, sentencing them each to five years in jail but ordered that the term be suspended from today.
Both offenders had served three-and-a-half years in custody prior to sentencing, while three more alleged co-offenders await their next court date.
