A husband lured his wife to a remote lock up, hit her over the head with sock filled with lead before trying to strangle her with an animal lead in a "well thought out" plan.
Richard Osborne was jailed for six years for the malicious attack on his church going wife of 29 years, Jane, he was in the process of separating from.
Gloucester Crown Court heard the 59-year-old motorcycle enthusiast tricked her to going to his shed in Redmarley and unleashed seven minutes of violence on her before he saw blood on her face, kissed her on the forehead and let her go.
Prosecutor Stephen Dent said Osborne of Foley Road, Newent had been planning the attack for weeks, put a blow up mattress in the garage and bought £85 worth of sex toys from Ann Summers in Gloucester the day before – two of which were discovered in the shed at the old chicken farm.
He said the couple, who have one son Oliver 21, were suffering from financial difficulties and were going to sell their home, pay off their debt and split.
Mr Dent said Osborne told police he intended to knock her unconscious, tie her up and make her watch him kill himself, but he said there could have been a chance Jane, a mortgage advisor, was not found for a while, given the remote location of the shed she was taken to on August 3, last year.
"It was well thought out and he had planned it for a week or two, "the prosecutor said.
"He said in interview 'if you are worth nothing and you die no one is going to miss you. I wanted her to be mentally traumatised. I wanted her to be involved with it. I wanted her to suffer'."
On a search of his computer police found Osborne had looked up a number of sadistic sexual websites in the days before, the court heard.
Defending Anna Knott said Osborne had suffered from bouts of depression for a number of years.
She said: "The reason it is an attempt in the large part it because he stopped.
"It is not a situation where she escaped at some point of the struggle. He stopped. The moment he saw blood on her face that brought him to his senses and at that point he let her go."
She told the judge Osborne had snapped under "intolerable pressure" including financial problems, which he part in blamed on Jane spending money on a horse, and their separation.
She said he had lost everything – including his son, who was home visiting his parents from university at the time of the attack.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC told him: "For at least two weeks you had been meticulous in planning the events. You had made yourself a weapon and you had laid out articles for use in strangulation in your shed.
"You bizarrely purchased a number of sexual instruments, two of which were found in the workshop after.
"I have no doubt you planned to cause your wife very serious injury indeed. Precisely what else you intended I simply do not know.
"Whether you really meant to kill yourself I am doubtful of.
"You subjected her to seven minutes of a violent, deeply unpleasant assault.
"She thought she was going to die and she still thinks that is what you were trying to do to her."
Osborne pleaded guilty attempting to cause Jane grievous bodily harm with intent and attempted false imprisonment.
As well as jailing Osborne the judge granted a restraining order banning him from contacting Jane until a further order.
The more serious charge of attempted murder was dropped by the prosecution after his pleas.
