SUZIE McGuire told her estranged husband's domestic abuse trial that she was warned she'd be shot dead.

The DJ said the threat was made to her just two weeks ago by the son she has with Derek Mitchell, three-year-old Oliver.

And she told the jury at Paisley Sheriff Court she had filmed the toddler warning her of the alleged plot to kill her and passed the video to prosecutors.

Giving evidence against Mitchell, who denies repeat-edly assaulting her through-out their relationship, Suzie said: "On October 22 my three-year-old son Oliver said, 'My daddy's gonna shoot you. He's got a big gun, he's going to use it and he's going to kill you.'

"I filmed it. The video is there and the Crown have it. It's horrifying. It's sickening to watch and listen to.

"Derek warned me that whether it was next week, next month, next year or in ten years he would get me back. That's why I couldn't ask for help. I'm genuinely in fear of Derek."

Suzie - who quit her post as Clyde One's drivetime host last month - denied she was trying to "throw as much mud" as she could at Mitchell.

When his lawyer, Billy Lavelle, asked her if she was trying to "destroy" her ex husband, she replied: "I'm telling the truth."

The mother-of-four also said she took Mitchell back time and time again despite repeated attacks.

She told the jury that she married him and had two kids with him after he'd bitten her on the face, throttled her, broken her finger and kicked her down the stairs while she was pregnant.

And she said the reason for always forgiving him was because she loved him and didn't like being alone.

She explained: "It was a car crash of a relationship.

"It was like we couldn't live together and we couldn't live apart. It was good to have someone around. I was just weak and trusting.

"I had very, very strong feelings for Derek, otherwise I wouldn't have married him and had two babies with him."

She told the court that they split up in December 2009 after he attacked her, bit her cheek and throttled her in the NCP car park in Glasgow's Mitchell Street.

Emails they exchanged during January and February 2010 were read to the court, in which Mitchell said he loved Suzie and had "lost" his "baby and best pal."

The former DJ said she couldn't forgive herself for always letting the "Jekyll and Hyde character" back into her life.

She told the nine male and six female jurors she "endured hell" while she was with Mitchell.

She also told the court that an article in a now- defunct newspaper alleging she had hada relationship with a footballer was "spurious".

Mitchell, an accountant, denies several attacks on Suzie, making threats towards her, breaching the peace, and following her between March 2009 and October last year.

The alleged offences are said to have taken place at locations, including the Mar Hall resort, in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, their marital home in Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, and elsewhere.

The trial continues.