A JEALOUS wife knocked out a woman she thought was having an affair with her husband and then cut off her breasts — only to discover she had turned him down.

The Mirror reports that Xiao Lin, 27, was at home watching TV when there came a knock at the door at her home in Heshan, China.

As she answered it someone kicked it which caused her to fall and knock herself unconscious.

A bag was then put over her head and she was tied up and stripped naked.

Her husband, Xiao Luo, told the horrific details of what happened next.

“She thought maybe it was a sex attacker but it was something much worse. The attacker cut off her breasts with a pair of scissors,” she said.

After the attack the hood was removed from Mrs Xiao’s head and she recognised her attacker as Meng Tsao, a woman with whom she had once worked at a local factory.

Mrs Meng admitted the attack to detectives and said she did it because Mrs Xiao was having an affair with her husband.

Her husband, Meng Pan, admitted that he had a crush on Mrs Xiao but that she had turned him down.

He had told his wife that he found Mrs Xiao attractive and when he filed for divorce she wrongly assumed that the other woman was the reason.

Mrs Meng has been arrested and charged while Mrs Xiao is still recovering in hospital.

Doctors have said that it is impossible to reattach her breasts.