A young wife stabbed her husband's teenage mistress after he cheated on her after the birth of their premature baby.

Natasha Khan, 18, stormed up to Leah Cryne and subjected her to a frenzied knife attack after she spotted her by chance while strolling through a park with her spouse.

Miss Cryne, also 18, was knifed six times and taken to hospital for various wounds to her right shoulder and her left arm.

Police spoke to the victim as she lay injured in Manchester Royal Infirmary - then arrested Khan at neighbouring St Mary's Hospital where her one-month-old baby Aydin was lying gravely ill after being born prematurely.The infant has since died. 

Minshull Street crown court in Manchester heard the stabbing occurred following angry phone calls between the two women which culminated in Miss Cryne snapping and saying: "I hope your son dies and when he does I'm going to dig him up and spit on him."

In response Khan retorted: "Watch it - when I see you, God help you."

Khan, from Whalley Range, Manchester, was yesterday locked away for three years and four months in a young offenders' institute after she admitted wounding with intent and a separate offence failing to answer her bail.

She was also issued with a restraining order preventing her from contacting Miss Cryne indefinitely.

Khan had married husband Hamza Farid in an Islamic ceremony and the couple had Aydin together in March 2015 but he was born 24 weeks prematurely and was kept in hospital.