Five men have been jailed over a home invasion in which a woman was doused in petrol and threatened with a lighter.

Christopher Stephens, Warwick Karaka, Nassey August and Jermaine Anderson were jailed for four years for the break in in West Auckland two years ago.

The sentencing judge rejected arguments by four Mongrel Mob members that they were performing a community service by breaking into a suspected drug den.

An fifth defendant was given permanent name suppression.