In 2015, a 38-year-old Scot, Keir Johnston, sparked a debate on social media over the colour of the gown his mother-in-law wore at her marriage ceremony. The gown went extremely viral as some folks noticed it “black and blue”, others thought it was “gold and white”.
Eight years later, the identical man behind the viral gown pleaded responsible to endangering his spouse’s life and admitted making an attempt to strangle her.
Keir Johnston appeared at Glasgow Excessive Courtroom on Thursday, the place he pleaded responsible to a “terrifying” assault on his spouse, Grace Johnston, which left her “fearing for her life” however alive, based on The Each day Report.
Johnston, from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was remanded in custody till his sentencing subsequent month, scheduled for June 6.
The controversy over the true colours of the gown broke out on the Web and generated hundreds of feedback, together with from celebrities. Kim Kardashian additionally posted that she had argued about it along with her then-husband, Kanye West.
Ellen DeGeneres invited the Johnstons to her discuss present, the place they acquired $10,000 and a visit to Grenada.
This week the Scottish court docket heard Johnston left his spouse fearing for her life and had a historical past of home abuse in the direction of her.
Crown prosecutor Chris Macintosh instructed Woman Drummond and the court docket how Grace lived in worry of her abusive husband. “There isn’t a everlasting police presence on the island and he or she was in a state of affairs the place she felt trapped,” she mentioned.
The court docket heard Grace had as soon as rejected her husband’s calls for to not attend a job interview on the mainland. Days later, he instructed her he would go away her earlier than the couple acquired into an altercation wherein Johnston grabbed her spouse and threw her to the bottom.
“Johnston awoke and mentioned he was going to go away her. She left the property to forestall her from leaving. “He adopted her and pinned her to the bottom,” Macintosh mentioned, based on The Report.
“He put each knees on her arms, so she could not transfer. Then he started to strangle her with each fingers.
“Initially she was capable of scream and feared for her life and believed Johnston meant to kill her as a result of he was so forceful,” Macintosh mentioned that regardless of struggling extreme bruising, Johnston didn’t require medical remedy.
Johnston’s attorneys mentioned he had accepted accountability for the assault. Woman Drummond refused Johnston bail and remanded him into custody, telling him: “I need not let you know that it is a severe and violent offence.
“You repeatedly strangled her, injured her and put her life in peril in what should have been completely terrifying circumstances for her,” Drummond mentioned.
