This is the moment a village councilor and his alleged mistress 13 years his junior were caught by his angry wife in a motel in the Philippines.

The local official, 35, allegedly booked a room to sleep with the youth council chairwoman, 22, at a motel in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu province, on April 2.

The man's wife, 32, had reportedly been suspicious of her husband's possible affair and tailed him to the lodging around 11 miles from their hometown of Consolacion.

She told the police who launched an investigation into the husband of concubinage, which carries up to four years in prison in the hardline Catholic country, where adultery is illegal.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Christian Torres, spokesman for the Lapu-Lapu City Police, said she filed a complaint at Police Station 3 after seeing the couple entering the building on Tuesday evening.

Footage shows the scorned wife accompanied by police waiting outside the motel room to bust the allegedly unfaithful husband and his paramour.

When the door was opened after several minutes, the officers allegedly found them fully clothed while watching television.

The furious wife then launched a scathing rebuke at her husband, saying: 'I already warned you. You don't care about your children, you only care about yourself. Didn't I tell you I would find a way to prove your infidelity?'

Then, addressing the younger woman, she continued: 'And you. You're graduating from school. You're a dean's lister. You are wasting your future.'

The pair were taken to the Gun-ob Police Station for questioning, but were later released. Officials have not released the names of the involved parties.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Christian said: 'We could not file a case of concubinage because there was insufficient proof. It would be dismissed by the prosecutor.

'It could have been a stronger case if they were caught in the man's conjugal dwelling, or if they were in the middle of intercourse.'

However, he said they would file a case against the husband and his alleged mistress for violating the 'Violence Against Women and Children Act', referring to the psychological abuse the wife reportedly suffered over the affair.