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Husband 'ends six-year marriage on Facebook'
A wife found out that her six-year marriage was over after her husband posted a message on Facebook.
Emma Brady, 39, said she only discovered that she was being divorced when she was telephoned by concerned friends who had read the update.
The message her husband posted on the social networking website simply read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."
Mrs Brady spoke of her shame and anger at their very public separation at Blackburn Magistrates Court, where her husband, a 39-year-old IT consultant, pleaded guilty to assaulting her in a subsequent row.
"This whole thing has been really terrible. All the friends I have on the site are people I have known for years so it's been really humiliating having everything happen so publicly," she said.
"The irony is if he had just asked me for a divorce I would have agreed because I would never have wanted to make him unhappy."
Emma Brady, a conference manager and mother-of-one, said that she was not aware of her husband's message until she received a call from her best friend in Denmark checking if she was all right.
"We were like any other couple. We had our ups and downs but as far as I knew things were fine between us," she told the court.
"When I got the phone call I was shell-shocked. My first instinct was to phone him but my friends at work insisted I should speak to him face to face.
"When I got home I asked Neil if he had anything to tell me and he simply said no. He acted like everything was fine."
Brady of Baxenden, Lancashire, then lost his temper and threw his wife out of the house in her dressing gown – injuring her wrist – and locked her in the back garden. He accused her of having a relationship with another man, and had attempted to take her handbag to look through her mobile phone messages.
Catherine Allan, prosecuting, told the court: "He claimed a police officer had seen her with another man in Accrington. When she told him to contact her manager and ask where she had been he accused her of having an affair with him."
Gareth Price, defending, said that his client had previously raised the prospect of a divorce with his wife, and denied that the first she heard of it was on Facebook.
Brady pleaded guilty to assault and was fined £580 and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £75 costs.
The couple no longer live together but have yet to begin formal divorce proceedings.
Husband 'ends six-year marriage on Facebook'
A wife found out that her six-year marriage was over after her husband posted a message on Facebook.
Emma Brady, 39, said she only discovered that she was being divorced when she was telephoned by concerned friends who had read the update.
The message her husband posted on the social networking website simply read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."
Mrs Brady spoke of her shame and anger at their very public separation at Blackburn Magistrates Court, where her husband, a 39-year-old IT consultant, pleaded guilty to assaulting her in a subsequent row.
"This whole thing has been really terrible. All the friends I have on the site are people I have known for years so it's been really humiliating having everything happen so publicly," she said.
"The irony is if he had just asked me for a divorce I would have agreed because I would never have wanted to make him unhappy."
Emma Brady, a conference manager and mother-of-one, said that she was not aware of her husband's message until she received a call from her best friend in Denmark checking if she was all right.
"We were like any other couple. We had our ups and downs but as far as I knew things were fine between us," she told the court.
"When I got the phone call I was shell-shocked. My first instinct was to phone him but my friends at work insisted I should speak to him face to face.
"When I got home I asked Neil if he had anything to tell me and he simply said no. He acted like everything was fine."
Brady of Baxenden, Lancashire, then lost his temper and threw his wife out of the house in her dressing gown – injuring her wrist – and locked her in the back garden. He accused her of having a relationship with another man, and had attempted to take her handbag to look through her mobile phone messages.
Catherine Allan, prosecuting, told the court: "He claimed a police officer had seen her with another man in Accrington. When she told him to contact her manager and ask where she had been he accused her of having an affair with him."
Gareth Price, defending, said that his client had previously raised the prospect of a divorce with his wife, and denied that the first she heard of it was on Facebook.
Brady pleaded guilty to assault and was fined £580 and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £75 costs.
The couple no longer live together but have yet to begin formal divorce proceedings.
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