JAILED: Stalker who tried to make victim his sex slave

Robin Gomes plotted to "chain and cage" the woman whom he met online.

The court heard the woman confronted Gomes with a hunting rifle – and it went off as the defendant wrestled it from her hands moments before the police burst through the door of her home near Llandrindod Wells.

Office worker Gomes developed "sadistic fantasies" about the woman after meeting her on Twitter and striking up an online relationship.

They eventually met up in person for a night together but the woman told Gomes she didn't want a romance. Cardiff Crown Court heard Gomes then developed a plan to kidnap, enslave and rape the woman.

Mr Phillip Warren, prosecuting, said: "He claimed he was her master and she his slave."

Mr Warren said initially their relationship "flourished" and they agreed to meet in Bristol.

They spent the night at a hotel together, but the next morning she told him she didn't see their relationship going any further.

Gomes then began bombarding her with abusive messages.

He used the internet to track down where she lived, and began turning up.

Police were called and gave him a harassment warning, but was arrested later that day when he tried to return again.

Mr Warren said: "He broke into her home with the intent of committing a sexual offence."

Mr Warren said Gomes banged on the door in a bid to carry out his sex slave plan. She grabbed a hunting rifle from her gun cabinet, dialled 999 and barricaded herself in her bedroom.

When he reached the landing she tried to fire the gun at him, but had left the safety catch on and he lunged at her and grabbed the weapon.

Gomes pushed her into her bedroom and on to her bed, before the gun went off.

Police burst into the home and arrested Gomes as the woman was left "crying uncontrollably".

Gomes, aged 33, of Caversham, Berkshire, admitted stalking and intent to commit a sexual act. Ms Trudi Yeatman, for Gomes, said her client suffers from both personality and delusional disorders but had "improved" his behaviour since the attack in July 2014.

Gomes was given a restraining order against contacting the woman, a sexual harm prevention order limiting his future internet use, and made to sign the sex offenders' register for life.