A cheating wife tried to recruit a hitman to murder her husband and make it look like an ISIS execution in the heart of London so she could be with her secret lover.

Nurten Taycur, 28, offered to pay a hitman £5,000 to kill Ercan Akan, an Uber driver, so she could be with her boyfriend after two-year affair.

But she was arrested after she handed over a £1,000 downpayment to contract killer 'John', who turned out to be an undercover cop.

Nurten Taycur gave an undercover cop posing as a hitman the password so he could track her husband's iPhone while he was out working at night as an Uber driver

The Old Bailey heard that on December 11, when she handed over the money, she went into lurid detail about her horrific plot.

She told 'John': ‘What I am thinking, I got this thing in my head, you know this ISIS thing that’s going around, like if your friend gets a spray and writes ISIS on top of the car.’

Taycur also gave a ‘graphic description’ of how she wanted Mr Akan's throat to be slashed and emphasised: ‘I don’t want him to survive.’

Nurten Taycur, 28, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey (pictured) to soliciting the murder of her husband Ercan Akan and was warned she faced a 'substantial' prison sentence next week

Her shocked victim later told police: ‘I still don’t understand why Nurten wanted me to be killed - if she wanted to separate from me she could have done it in the normal way.’

He told police he had no idea she was having an affair or that there were any problems in the marriage.

Taycur came to the UK as a child and was only 16 when she married her husband, who came from the same Kurdish village in Turkey.

The couple lived together in Hackney and went on holiday to Turkey a few months before the murder plot was hatched.

The Old Bailey heard she first met the 'hitman' on November 13 last year in Hackney's Victoria Park and offered to track her husband using the Find My iPhone app.

Mark Gadsden, prosecuting, said: ‘She indicated she had a budget of £5,000.

‘She did say she was currently involved in a relationship with another man, her boyfriend with whom she had had a relationship for two years.

‘We suggest that was the reason why she wanted the husband murdered.’

Taycur was recorded on tape telling the bogus hitman: ‘In our culture you cannot have a boyfriend but I can say yeah well I cheated on my husband.’

‘I want his body to be found so I can take him to Turkey so I can cry (at his funeral) to see I’m very sad Nurten Taycur

‘I want him to die. I want him to get out of my life.’

She explicitly told him to use a knife rather than a gun and suggested attacking him while he was driving his minicab at night.

She added: ‘If you stab him in the car park... you need to guarantee me if you stab him he needs to be dead.’

When the undercover cop offered to dispose of the body by taking it to be eaten by pigs on a farm she replied: ‘No I don’t want that to happen.

‘I want his body to be found so I can take him to Turkey so I can cry to see I’m very sad.’

She later provided a passport photograph of her husband and gave the contract killer the registration number of his Toyota Prius.

Four days later she texted him with the words: ‘The order is ready.’

In another text she added: ‘I’m so excited.’

After her arrest the remaining £4,000 which she was planning to hand over after the murder was found hidden at her home.

Nurten Taycur was born in a Kurdish village in southern Turkey and she seized on the idea of making the killing of her husband look like it had been carried out by ISIS. Here ISIS fighters are pictured parading through a town in Syria

Mr Gadsden said police then informed Mr Akan of the plot and added: ‘The fact that his wife was planning to have him murdered obviously came as a complete shock to him.’

Taycur made no comment during police interviews but later pleaded guilty to soliciting to murder and will be sentenced on May 13.

She claims her husband would not have let her get a divorce for cultural reasons.