A woman who battered her husband with a child’s scooter and plastic baseball bat before stabbing him has been jailed.

Thai-born Thippawan Croft flew into a rage after her husband Daniel came back from the pub.

As the couple’s young son watched, the 31-year-old mother-of-three, of Brunstock Beck, Didcot, falsely accused Mr Croft of having an affair before throwing a laptop out of the front door, pushing him against the family car and jabbing a burning incense stick into his arm.

Croft, who met her 27-year-old husband when he was working in Thailand five years ago, was convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at Oxf-ord Crown Court last month.

The jury heard that as Mr Croft arrived home at about 10.30pm on October 6 last year, Croft slapped him before throwing a child’s scooter at his head as neighbours heard her shout: “I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill Nicky, I’m going to kill myself.”

Croft then threw a recycling bin at her husband’s head, beat him with a foam-covered plastic baseball bat until it snapped and burned him with the incense stick.

Finally, she picked up a kitchen knife and thrust it twice into her husband’s upper chest and once down to the bone in his left arm, leaving him needing 16 stitches.

At Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Clare Thomas, defending, said her client – who listened through an interpreter – had two children in Thailand and would send money back to her parents to help look after them.

She said: “I think it’s probably fair to say that Miss Croft is terrified by the offence which she has been convicted of and the consequences of what she did.

“She has found the last three weeks in custody very difficult. She has not been eating.

“The impact on her children seems to be at the forefront of her mind.”

Jailing her for four and a half years, Judge Patrick Eccles said: “Your attack was preceded by a loss of temper in which you hit your husband and threw various articles at him.

“All this was done in the mistaken belief, a belief without good reason, that he was involved with another woman.

“It was made worse by being committed in front of a young child and it is well known that serious domestic violence can cause severe emotional trauma in young children.”

He added: “I accept that the relationship between you and your husband was volatile. There is evidence he had a fiery temper and there were times when he lost control, but I do not accept that he hit you.”

He added: “It’s always a sad day to have to sentence a woman in these circumstances but I’m afraid that is the sentence you have to serve.”

Deportation papers were served on Croft last month but she refused to sign them, the court heard. Her immigration status is due to be decided during her time in prison.