A woman threw a stool through a pub window because she believed the landlady was having an affair with her husband, a court heard yesterday.

Stephanie Waite, prosecuting, told Harrogate magistrates that Sally Alexandra Hanford had stormed into the Black Swan, in Devonshire Place, Harrogate, in the early hours of January 15.

She said Hanford, 25, the mother of a six-year-old boy, was hysterical. Furniture was thrown around and a window in the pub was smashed.

Hanford, of Slingsby Crescent, Harrogate, pleaded guilty to damaging a window belonging to Doreen Lee.

Hanford's solicitor, Sarah Waddington, said she had gone to the Black Swan in the belief her husband was with the landlady.

She said: "She believed her husband was having an affair and she was upset. She found the back door open and went and knocked on an internal door to ask where her husband was."

Miss Waddington said Hanford refused to accept that her husband was not there and an argument followed.

She was made to leave but picked up a stool on her way out and threw it at the window.

Court chairman Lindsay Councell adjourned the hearing until March 1 for the value of the damage to be assessed.