A fashion designer who slashed her husband across the face with scissors after discovering he was having an affair with an older woman has been spared jail.

Charlotte Laudat, 31, attacked her partner Simon, 40, just hours after finding naked photos of a woman in her 70s on his phone.

She pulled a pair of scissors from her robe and inflicted eight wounds to her husband's face, telling him: "You are going to die tonight", Blackfriars crown court heard.

Fearing for his life, Mr Laudat jumped out of a first-floor window to escape for his irate wife.

Laudat, who designs children's clothes under the brand Little Lott London, pleaded guilty to the attack on her husband, but claimed he had come at her with the scissors first.

However, Judge Jane Sullivan rejected her story, finding that Laudat had flown into a rage over the naked photos of another woman.

At court today, Laudat was given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £5,000 in compensation to her husband.

Laudat, who is now pregnant by a new partner, broke down in tears at her last court appearance after being told she could face a spell behind bars.

She and Mr Laudat, who were married in April 2016, had been on a property management course in Milton Keynes on October 26 last year when she found naked photos a woman she believed was in her 70s on his phone.

Laudat said she initially believed it was a "joke" but her husband admitted to the affair, coming to her flat in Finsbury Park later that evening to try to talk.

Prosecutor Gino Connor said after a phone call to the woman in the pictures, Laudat flew into a rage and pulled out the scissors.

"She was shouting and screaming abuse at him, saying 'I can't believe you have done this to me'", he said.

"At this point she attacked her husband with a pair of scissors.

"She held the scissors in her fist with the blade open and started to slash at his face, saying 'I will cut your eye open'."

Mr Laudat, who gave evidence to the court in March from a wheelchair, described the attack: "At first she held them in her hand. After she hit me the first time with the scissors I backed away because I was in shock at what she had done.

"She then put the scissors inside the knuckles and basically she punched me."

He said he "pleaded" with his wife to stop the attack, and grabbed her hair in a bid to wrestle free the scissors.

After Laudat told him "You're suffering tonight, you are going to die tonight", he believed he had no choice but to jump out of the kitchen window and seek help from neighbours.

"I had to get out of there, she threatened my life", he said.

Describing the discovery of the affair, Laudat told the court: "I saw various pictures of a lady in her late 70s, naked. I never want to see them again."

Mr Laudat shattered his ankle in the fall from the first floor flat, and now needs a wheelchair to get around and as well as a Zimmer frame at home.

Judge Sullivan ordered Laudat to also pay £1,800 in costs as well as the compensation, and she must undergo 30 days of rehabilitation and a 14-day activity course with probation as part of the suspended sentence.

She is also banned from contacting Mr Laudat under a restraining order.

Laudat, formerly of Finsbury Park, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm.