Wife savagely attacks teacher in front of class after claims she'd been sleeping with her husband

A wife savagely beat a teacher in front of her pupils after claims the woman was having an affair with her husband.

And instead of stepping in to stop the attack, it was watched, filmed and even encouraged by bystanders after the attacker explained that the teacher had been sleeping with her partner.

Seething Laelia Paredes Flores, 35, stormed into the classroom in Huimanguillo in south-east Mexico, and set upon Marcella Villalpando Tovar, 32, as students and members of staff stood by and watched.

Capturing the scene on phone camera, the 60-second-long footage shows Tovar cowering on the floor as Flores delivers a series of sickening kicks and punches to her face and stomach.

She then jumps on top of Tovar and starts pulling her hair and punching her in the face screaming: "Defend yourself you w***", before eventually storming off and leaving the shaken woman to get off the floor.

At one point another woman’s voice off camera can be heard encouraging Flores on by shouting: "Break her".

Student Miriam Gracia Adomo, 16, said: "The woman charged in and began shouting and screaming before punching our teacher to the floor.

"That’s when I ran to get help.

"But when other teachers came they just stood around watching.

"It was really terrible, terrible."