When an employee of the hotel went upstairs to the room shared by the couple, the victim was heard to say: "I am in agony, I am going to die."

She was rushed to Manchester Royal Infirmary with multiple gun shot pellets in the abdomen and received significant trauma injuries. The victim received emergency surgery which saved her life but is recovering from life changing injuries.

In hospital, she informed medical staff of the traumatic experience and explained that Jeffers was a "bad man" who tried to "blow her insides out".

On Friday, at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, Jeffers who was due to stand trial for attempted murder, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life after it emerged that the victim had agreed to take part in the act as part of her own sexual fantasy.

Jeffers received a 10 year custodial sentence for what a judge described as "a sexual fantasy with dreadful consequences".

Prosecuting, Peter Wright QC, said: "The defendant is 47 years of age and falls to be sentenced upon count three of the indictment. The victim is 46 years of age and was employed in the Stockport area which was some distance from her home and would regularly stay over at the Britannia.