Keir Johnston, whose mother-in-law attended his wedding event in a blue-and-black dress that went viral for looking white and gold to countless audiences, was jailed and charged Monday with the tried murder of his other half, according to The Daily Mail and other media outlets.
Johnston, 38, is implicated of numerous circumstances of domestic violence versus his other half, Grace, over a duration of 11 years, culminating in the supposed murder effort in his efforts to apply control over her, according to court records. The charges describe events from April 2019 to March 2022.
On March 6, 2022, Johnston presumably pressed his other half versus a wall at their trip home in Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The local of the Isle of Colonsay was reportedly implicated at high court in Glasgow of threatening her life and choking her while wielding a knife.
The Times reported that Johnston likewise punched his other half in the face through a car window in an effort to enter into the vehicle. He likewise is implicated of putting her in a headlock and dragging her along on a pub crawl when she declined to leave a bar with him.
Johnston has actually rejected the charges. His trial is anticipated to begin next year.
The criminal charges mark a shocking contrast to his public personality in different media looks when the so-called “Dress That Broke the Internet” went viral in 2015 after wedding event visitor Caitlin McNeill snapped the enigmatic photo.
The Roman Originals gown was especially recorded in harsher lighting in the viral picture.
The photo of the dress spread like wildfire after some properly explained it as black and blue while others with confidence insisted it was white and gold. Newsrooms all over the world, including HuffPost, added to protection of the easy going problem.
Celebrities consisting of Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift likewise took part in online disagreements over the visual puzzle. Johnston and his other half even appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to talk about its true colors for $10,000 and a journey to Grenada.
But even as the viral picture was generating up to 11,000 tweets per minute, with an accompanying hashtag #TheDress, Johnston was presumably torturing his other half by monitoring her place, examining her costs and attempting to separate her from buddies.
In a dispiriting paradox, the dress was used in a domestic abuse campaign by The Salvation Army, which matched a picture of a battered female using a white and gold gown with the words: “Why is it so hard to see black and blue?”
“The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One in six women are victims of abuse,” the Salvation Army advertisement concluded.
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
