20-year-old, Mohammad Mahaboob, had recruited the victim with the promise of paying him £100 a day in return for selling drugs in Essex.
The victim, who took on the work to fund his own drugs habit, was not paid so he took some of the drugs without telling Mahaboob.
Mahaboob ordered him to a flat in Romford where he violently assaulted him. He punched and kicked him in the face and body for an hour.