A CHEF at a Llanidloes restaurant thought he was going to be killed when a masked man entered his bedroom and pointed a gun at him.

The gun was also used to strike the victim several times to the head and he was forced to hand over his banking details.

Mold Crown Court heard how £6,000 was transferred from his account electronically and the raider also took his wallet containing £580.

The raider attempted to tie up his victim with plastic ties but he bravely fought back fearing he was about to be killed.

His attacker fled – but not before the victim had managed to pull his balaclava off.

He then recognised him as a 17-year-old youth who he knew from Birmingham.

The victim was left covered in blood and a judge said pictures of him on the stairs after the attack were “horrible.”

Judge Rhys Rowlands imposed a four-year sentence of detention on the youth, who cannot be publicly identified, after he admitted robbery with an imitation firearm.

The judge warned that if he had been an adult then he would have received a sentence of 12 years or more after a trial.

The robbery happened at the staff quarters of the Bengali Brasserie in Llanidloes High Street in the early hours of 26 July.