A woman was shot in the vagina and left with “life changing injuries” in a sex game gone wrong, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
The 46-year-old had been engaged in sexual activity with David Andrew Jeffers, 47, at a Stockport hotel in January when she was shot.<\/p>\n
Jeffers admitted possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and was jailed for 10 years.<\/p>\n
The two had been engaged in a “sex fantasy” when the weapon fired, the Crown Prosecution Service said.<\/p>\n
Greater Manchester Police branded the scene “shocking” and “horrifying”.<\/p>\n
Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard the shooting happened\u00a0at the Britannia Hotel<\/a>\u00a0in Dialstone Lane in the early hours of 31 January.<\/p>\n When officers arrived at the scene they found the victim in a pool of blood and suffering from serious abdominal injuries.<\/p>\n She was taken to hospital and required extensive surgery, police said.<\/p>\n The woman, who was too unwell to be fully interviewed at the time, told officers from her hospital bed that Jeffers was a “bad man”.<\/p>\n Police said Jeffers, of Berkley Terrace, Leeds, claimed to have found the gun in a pub toilet in Leeds. He said he took the gun to Manchester to dispose of it.<\/p>\n Jeffers was spotted on CCTV leaving the hotel and going to Piccadilly Station to catch a train back to Leeds.<\/p>\n Armed officers raided a property on Amberton Grove, Leeds, two days later and arrested Jeffers.<\/p>\n A search of the house found a partially scrawled note denying knowledge of the shooting, the court heard.<\/p>\n Det Insp Roger Edwards said: “This was a horrifying incident that has left a woman with life changing injuries that will affect her for the rest of her life.”<\/p>\n He said the crime was “one of the most shocking” he had encountered, adding: “Jeffers left the victim badly bleeding in a hotel room, showing no regard for her life.<\/p>\n “I know that this has been a traumatic time for this woman, having to relive the horror of that day.”<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"