Millionaire city trader attacked hubby with bread knife after he cheated with her pal and threatened to kill his lover as she hid under stairs

A MILLIONAIRE city trader who attacked her husband with a bread knife after he cheated on her with her friend and threatened to kill his lover while she hid under the stairs has been jailed for 15 months.

Mum-of-four Nasreen Knight, 37, was also warned she could face a longer jail sentence if she breaches an order which bans her from contacting her estranged husband Julian Knight or his new partner Erika Hillyer.

Imposing the order at Lincoln Crown Court yesterday, Judge Simon Hirst told the "highly educated" hedge fund trader: "If you breach the terms of the order you are likely to face up to five years imprisonment."

The same judge had jailed Knight last Friday after she admitted injuring her husband with a knife as their marriage broke up.

Knight, who speaks five languages, also threatened to kill her former equestrian pal, Ms Hillyer after turning up drunk at the £1 million farmhouse in Hough on the Hill.

Lincoln Crown Court heard Knight had been involved in a previous incident with her husband, a retired investment fund boss, just days earlier on January 11 when she lunged at him, smashing his glasses, and then went on to attack him, punching and kicking him in the laundry room.

Knight also rammed his Land Rover Defender with her Nissan and attacked Ms Hillyer, punching her and pulling her hair so hard that Erika Hillyer thought her hair may come out of her head, the court heard.

She was arrested and charged following the incident in January but bailed on condition she did not return to the house.

But eight days later on January 19 she was back at the property demanding her husband drop the charges as she feared it would prevent her taking up a position with Bloomberg, the court heard.

Knight then left the house but was back four hours later having apparently been involved in a road accident during the interim period, and Mr Knight saw she "staggering back towards the property carrying a bottle of vodka," the court heard.

Mark Achurch, prosecuting, said this time Mrs Knight armed herself with a seven-inch bladed knife, and after a struggle with her husband , who was left "bleeding profusely" as his finger was cut in the grapple, she ran through the house shouting she was going to kill Ms Hillyer.

Mr Achurch said: "She was shouting 'Where the f**k is Erika? I want to kill her."

Knight then punched Mr Knight to the face, bit him to the right shoulder and pulled his hair, and then "ran around the house with the knife looking for Erika. She was shouting 'You can't hide. I'm going to get you'," prosecution said.

Ms Hillyer was hiding under the stairs during the incident and, having heard the shouting, she called the police who arrived and arrested Knight.

Nasreen Knight, 37, of Hough Road, Frieston, Lincs, had admitted two charges of assault by beating and a further charge of criminal damage arising from the incident on 11 January. She admitted affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 19 January.

The couple had been married for ten years, but the marriage deteriorated in 2017 and divorce proceedings were commenced in December.

Judge Hirst last week rejected a defence plea that her jail sentence should be suspended.

He said "You are a highly educated woman. You speak five languages and you were a hedge fund trader in London.

"I'm afraid the level of violence , the use of a weapon and the persistent nature of the offending on two separate days means this is so serious that there must be an immediate custodial sentence."

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