An American travel influencer has spoken out about being stalked by a British obsessive after he flew to her home in Bali with rope in his suitcase.

Talking for the first time since Rob Keating's conviction, Alexandra Saper said his 'extremely disturbing' actions had 'rattled' her sense of identity and left her feeling constantly scared.

Keating faces jail after being found guilty earlier this month of two counts of stalking for sending Ms Saper constant messages in which he shared his graphic sexual fantasies including that he would 'go 50 Shades of Grey' on her and wanted to abduct her.

'This was the first time in my life I was scared all the time. I would wake up scared, I would fall asleep scared,' Ms Saper, a former lawyer, told her 100,000 Instagram followers.

'I felt so disempowered, it just rattled my whole sense of identity.'