A company CEO was left living in fear of her boyfriend's ex-wife after she mounted a horrific smear campaign, calling her a 'homewrecker', a 'fraudster' and a 'slut'.

Stephanie Hughes, 39, was bombarded with hateful messages by bitter Christina Corish after she started a relationship with Corish's ex-husband Richard.

Although she had split up from her 42-year-old spouse three years earlier, Corish contacted Miss Hughes's friends through social media in a fit of spite, telling them: 'She is sleeping with my husband'.

During her 18-month campaign, the 37-year-old mother-of-two also contacted other parents at the school which the victim's children attend, accusing her of having an 'affair' and branding her a 'home wrecking whore with saggy bits.'

Mother-of-four Miss Hughes of Cheshire, who runs a travel agency and a competitions company, initially ignored the personal slurs but reported her to police after she left a malicious review on her Facebook business page on Valentine's Day, falsely calling her a 'conwoman'.