Zhen Fang stabbed his friend Ting Huang up to 20 times in a Guildford house in 2014.

Fang will serve the minimum term despite pleading that he had been in a “drug induced blackout” when murdering Ting Huang and had suffered auditory hallucinations and delusions.

In handing down the sentence for Fang in the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Peter Johnson said the offender’s actions could not be diminished because he committed the murder while he was heavily affected by ice.

Fang, 38, and Mr Huang had come from the same Chinese province to live in Australia and study Buddhism.

The two men began using ice and Fang started hearing voices speaking to him in Mandarin and telling him that someone would hurt him or kill family members.

Between August 31 and September 11 in 2014, Fang stabbed Mr Huang 20 times in a house in the western Sydney suburb of Guildford.

He wrapped the body in the doona cover and dumped it in the boot of a Honda Accord.

Ten days later, Mr Huang’s decomposing body was found in the boot of the car parked near Rookwood cemetery in Lidcombe.

Ting Huang’s body was dumped in the boot of a car and left near Rookwood Cemetery (above).Source:Supplied

After killing Mr Huang, Fang told his pastor he had “done something to another person” and made a throat-slitting gesture.

The next day, Fang went to police and told them, “I have killed someone” but said he had no memory of where or when, only that the person had given him a “a lot of ice” and threatened his family.

Police released him after a mental health assessment, but when they found the body they tried to contact Fang who was visiting his dying parents in China.

He was arrested on his return to Australia.

“(The) families have been left to salvage what they can from the human wreckage left from these terrible events.”

In her victim impact statement, Ting Huang’s mother Ai Qin Chen said her son’s death had ended her life.

“I feel it would be good for me to be dead rather than living,” she said.

Justice Johnson said the murder revealed “the devastating consequences flowing” from the use of ice.

“The sentence in this case should serve as a warning to the general community of the disastrous consequences flowing from the use of ice and the serious acts of violence which may be undertaken by persons while under its influence including, in this case, murder,” Justice Johnson said.

Originally published as Chanel doona killer gets 14 years