An Italian woman has won a 10 year legal battle to have her marriage annulled after her husband smoked cannabis on their wedding night.

The shocked woman from a conservative Italian family in Campagna spotted her husband rolling a joint on their wedding night.

She immediately demanded a divorce - and now after 10 years the Appeal Court of Salerno, near Naples, has annulled the union after consultation with an Ecclesiastic Tribunal.

The woman told the court she was horrified to see him using drugs as he had denied ever smoking cannabis before the wedding.

The Ecclesiastic Tribunal ruled that the marriage was invalid because the man lied to her wife about taking cannabis.

Making her ruling Angelo Rossi, president of the Appeal Court of Salerno, said: "The woman was a girl who grew up in a very conservative family and wanted a husband who was honest."