A WOMAN who battered her husband with a child’s scooter and burnt him with incense before stabbing him three times with a kitchen knife has been told to expect a lengthy jail sentence.

Thai national Thippawan Croft attacked her husband Daniel in a fit of rage after he came back from the pub.

The 31-year-old, of Brunstock Beck, Didcot, was convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm by a jury at Oxford Crown Court on Friday.

Croft, who met her 27-year-old husband while working in Thailand, was angered by her partner’s socialising with work colleagues, the court heard.

As he 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 (their young son), I’m going to kill myself.”

Richard Sharpe, prosecuting, said Croft threw a recycling bin at her husband’s head, beat him with a foam-covered plastic baseball bat and jabbed burning incense into his arm.

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

Judge Patrick Eccles remanded Croft in custody to be sentenced on June 3.

He warned: “Such offences almost invariably carry not only sentences of imprisonment but quite substantial sentences of imprisonment.”