This is the face of the 42-year-old man who attacked his former partner in her own home, tying her up and threatening her with a taser after their relationship broke down.

Hosam Khamis was jailed by Judge David Evans at Taunton Crown Court on Tuesday (May 2) for the horrific display of aggression.

It was on September 21 last year that Khamis made the trip from Newquay, where he had been living, to Shepton Mallet to visit the woman. When she opened the door to him, he bound her wrists with zip-ties and forced her back inside with a taser, telling her the attack was revenge for "wasting years of his life".

Once inside the house, he gagged her with a shirt and cling-film and threatened to kill her, remaining at the house for several hours.

As he prepared to leave, he became agitated, trying to get rid of any evidence that he had been there, and took two mobile phones and a telephone from the house so she could not call the police after he had left.

But Khamis missed one of the house phones and shortly after he left, she called the police, who retraced the journey he might have made.

In a lay-by near the Bath and West Showground, they found a ripped up box for a 20,000 volt taser, although the weapon itself had never been found.

Khamis was found by police when he tried to return to Shepton Mallet, and told them he was on his way back to return the victim's phones.

When he was arrested and questioned, he said the victim had been making up the accusations and even claimed she had threatened him with a taser.

His victim told the police the incident had been so distressing that her hair had began to fall out from with stress and she had been put on medication to help deal with the trauma she suffered.

Sentencing Khamis, Judge David Evans said: "It is clear to me you were expressing not just emotional anguish but also uncontained anger because you were unable to control your former partner.

"You restrained her, you put her face down on the sofa. You behaved erratically and although at times you expressed some regret about how you were behaving, you decided to go ahead with your premeditated plan to assault and intimidate her as a revenge for your loss of control.

"She must have been terrified. She could not have known how far you were willing to go. She was in fear of her life. You should be utterly ashamed of yourself."

Khamis, a taxi driver who had been living at Tredour Road, Newquay, but had also owned a restaurant in Camborne, Cornwall, was sentenced for three years for assault by beating and three months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.