The supermodel wife of a shamed recruitment boss who was jailed for threatening to gang rape a Virgin Atlantic air stewardess has defended her disgraced husband, declaring 'behind every story there is pain'.

Salman Iftikhar, 37, was flying in first class when he launched a vile tirade of abuse towards air staff on a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore, threatening to blow up the hotel they were staying in.

Wealthy passengers aboard the flight watched in horror as the recruitment boss repeatedly called steward Angie Walsh a ‘f***ing b****’ at 39,000ft. He later threatened to blow-up the five-star hotel the cabin crew were set to stay in.

The Daily Mail later revealed the father-of-three was a recruitment tycoon whose business went bust with £17million worth of debts - and had two wives, one in Pakistan and one living in Britain.

He was jailed for 15 months after he left Ms Walsh ‘broken’ and ‘traumatised’ after he declared she would be dragged out of her hotel room and assaulted.