'Killer plot' wife: I am a hussy.

A WOMAN accused of plotting to kill her husband described herself yesterday as a "lousy wife" and a "brazen hussy".

Anthea Jane Jones, 37, said she had been fond of wealthy chemist Francis Jones, 60, when they wed.

But she began to cheat on him because he was a workaholic, a court heard.

She once had an affair after throwing her phone number into a building site on a packet of mints.

Jones told the jury: "I was a brazen hussy. It seemed like a good idea at the time."

Speaking of another affair, she said: "I was wrong. I was a lousy wife."

She claimed she was joking when she offered a boyfriend pounds 20,000 to run her husband off the road.

Jones, of Blackrock, Monmouthshire, denies soliciting a man to kill her husband.

The trial continues at Cardiff crown court.