Wife found photos of au pair in bed with husband

A mother told today of her dismay at finding incriminating photographs of her husband having sex with their au pair.

Businesswoman Claudia Ross said: "The affair was bad enough but to see such graphic evidence like that was just a horrible shock. I was betrayed by the two people I trusted most - my partner and the woman I had brought into the house to look after the children."

She had found the photographs, including two showing oral sex, in an envelope with her partner's name on it when she went searching for nail clippers in the au pair's room at their home in Staines and opened a drawer.

She and Patrick Diavewa, who have been together for five years, had hired Italian Valerie Del Franco, 23, to look after their children aged two and seven months. Within three months the affair had begun.

Confronted with the pictures, which appeared in a national newspaper today, security guard Diavewa, 35, had to admit what he and Del Franco had been doing. His partner immediately ordered him out of their home.

Diavewa said: "I cannot deny what I did as she has the pictures. Everyone can see it is true.

"I cannot say anything else at the moment as this has come very suddenly."