A man enlisted as "muscle" to accompany two women collecting a drugs debt in Napier took advantage of the situation and sexually violated their kidnapped victim.
The details were revealed in Napier District Court on Friday as John Richard Kaka was sentenced to six years' jail for the offence, which happened December 2018.
He had pleaded guilty to one charge of kidnapping and one of sexual violation by digital penetration.
Judge Geoff Rea said the woman was unknown to Kaka, but he agreed to go with the women to her home to "enforce" the collection.
"You were recruited as muscle to assist in putting pressure on the complainant so the drug debt would be paid," Judge Rea told Kaka.