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It's got to be one of the shortest marriages on record, and probably one of the most violent
Nothing wrong with that, except that McKie, in top hat and tails, was standing on a table, shouting at the 50 guests and "sozzled on gallons of ale," as one witness said, reports the London Sun.
Anderson stormed in, got him off the table and took him outside.
She bashed him over the head with an ashtray, and he ran back into the pub with blood pouring from his head. He later received seven stitches.
When pub staffers refused to serve him any more alcohol, McKie picked up a hat stand and threw it "like a javelin" at the bar, according to the prosecutor.
"I'm glad to be rid of that woman," he said of his 16-years-older bride. "I should never have married her in the first place. My wedding day was a nightmare.”
"They had only been together for two or three months before they married," commented McKie's father Ian. "It was a big mistake. We hear she's ripped up all the wedding photos, but we don't want any reminders of that day either."
McKie's lawyer summed up the ordeal: "All concerned were very drunk."