A former glamour model from the west Midlands has walked free from court despite admitting bigamy for the fourth time.

Emily Horne, 30, was described by Judge Mushtaq Khokhar as a "manipulative woman" who had "undermined the institution of marriage".

But the judge said he had decided not to jail her because she had made progress in the last six months since being prescribed with medication for a personality disorder.

Speaking outside Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, Horne, who was given a 10-month suspended sentence, said: "I am feeling great. I have been vindicated."

Horne only told her "husband" Ashley Baker she was already married as they set off on their honeymoon. She changed her name on marriage certificates to avoid detection.

Horne, who used to be a glamour model and actress in adult movies, was sentenced to three months in prison at Ipswich Crown Court in 2004 for bigamy. The court heard that Horne, who lives in the West Midlands, had married four men by the age of 23.

Paul Hodgkinson, defending, said: "Her decision-making was affected by her mental health. She is an attention-seeker and she is a lady with emotional problems but she has had to put up with a great deal of trauma in her life. She is sorry for what she has done and she is sorry for the pain she has caused to the men and their families."

Horne, who has bipolar disorder, wed for the first time in York on her 18th birthday in December 1996, to soldier Paul Rigby. He was posted abroad and on his return found she had left him for banker Sean Cunningham. They married in Leeds in February 1999. But Horne left him for website designer Chris Barrett, and the couple wed in December 2000.

West Yorkshire Police became aware of her serial marriages and cautioned her for two offences of bigamy in 2001. But a year later she wed again - using her porn star name Amileannya Carmichael to marry rail guard James Matthews - and failed to get her previous marriages annulled.

The police were alerted and she was given a six-month sentence. But the time behind bars did not deter her from walking down the aisle again and Mr Baker unwittingly became husband number five in September 2007. The couple, who had known each other for just four months, were wed at Chadderton Register Office near Oldham, Greater Manchester. But on their way to Scotland for the honeymoon, Horne revealed she was already married - and police were called in. Horne claimed she did not know if she was divorced because she no longer had the paperwork.