Man who masterminded the viral wedding dress - that broke the Internet 5 years ago - accused of trying to murder his wife

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wedding dress broke the Internet, has now been charged with attempting to murder his spouse. 38-year-old Keir Johnston is now facing charges of attempted murder and domestic abuse. He has appeared in the High Court in Glasgow.

According to several British news outlets such as The Times, National Desk, and Metro UK, Johnston subjected his wife to physical and emotional abuse over a span of 11 years. As per a report by The Times, Johnston attempted to strangulate his wife, cornered her into a wall, and threatened her with a knife, between April 2019 and March 2022. He is also accused of emotional abuse, as he tried to cut off his wife from her friend circle and regulate her finances.

The couple who stayed at Colonsay in Scotland became Internet celebrities when a photo of the dress, the bride’s mother wore at the event, went viral as netizens tried to guess if the striped pattern was blue or black or white and gold. The dress landed the couple at several renowned talk shows such as ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’ where the couple recounted, how a simple family debate about the colour of the dress made them go global. “We had been arguing about this for weeks,” Caitlin told Degeneres about the dress.

“It had been tearing the community apart. We were losing our minds.” The duo was rewarded with $10,000 and a trip to Grenada after admitting that the dress was indeed coloured blue and black.Salvation Army, a non-governmental organisation that deals with the subject of domestic violence and assault, featured a fragile-looking woman beaten black and blue, wearing a white and gold dress in an advertisement for a campaign against domestic abuse. The poster’s caption reads, “‘Why is it so hard to see black and blue? The only illusion is