Man ends six-year marriage on Facebook

Updated: 2009-02-06 15:36

A woman discovered that her six-year marriage was over through a Facebook posting purportedly made by her husband.

Emma Brady, 39, said that she was alerted to the fact that her relationship was finished by friends who had read the update and phoned to check on her, says The Daily Telegraph.

The message read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."

Her husband, a 39-year-old IT consultant from Baxenden, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to assaulting his estranged wife in a subsequent row. He was fined £580 and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £75 costs at Blackburn Magistrates' Court.

"This whole thing has been really terrible," Emma told the court.

"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. 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."