The last of the five people convicted of almost killing a student outside the main entrance of Prince of Wales Collegiate last year has been sentenced to 20 months’ house arrest, and a year of probation.

Tyler Greening didn’t lay a hand on the victim.

Nor did he know what he was getting himself into, verified by text messages between the group.

But he did drive the others to and from the school, watched while they wailed away and almost killed the boy with a baseball bat and hatchet, then drove them to Topsail Beach to ditch the weapons and the car.

He turned himself in a few days later, giving police all they needed to arrest the others, and inevitably labelled a rat for it.

And having just turned 18, he was the only one who could be named, making him, in the words of Judge Jacqueline Brazil, the poster child for the case, despite having played the lesser role.

She noted Greening had no criminal record, and considered suicide in the aftermath, relating his regret and shame for an incident that almost cost another boy’s life.

“This is your chance,” Brazil said, sentencing him to house arrest, in part to ensure he doesn’t end up at HMP.

The others, meanwhile, are serving sentences between 18 and 24 months at youth corrections in Whitbourne.

The conclusion of the case came less than a week after another group of teens laid a beating on two men in separate, back-to-back attacks in Mount Pearl last Friday.

Five boys and one girl, aged 13 to 16, have since been arrested in that case.