First Lesbian Marriage - Wife Found Hanged

20th December 2013

A woman who married her lesbian lover in one of Britain’s first same sex weddings was found hanged in a cemetery, more than a year after the marriage fell apart, a coroner heard today.

Donna Canavan-McClung had divorced her partner of nine years and started a 'volatile' relationship with a new girlfriend who filed a domestic abuse complaint against her days before she died, an inquest into her death heard.

Mrs Canavan-McClung, 32, married mother-of-two Colleen Canavan in 2006, months after the law was changed to allow gay civil ceremonies in the UK. But the marriage broke down after five years and they divorced in February last year.

Mrs Canavan-McClung, a lifeguard and swimming teacher who had recently lost her job, began a new relationship with a woman called Miranda Yardley, which, Dorset coroner Sherriff Payne said, was 'volatile'.


The new couple lived together most of the time but often fell out and had violent rows, the inquest heard.


Their problems came to a head this October when Miss Yardley went to the police claiming she was a victim of domestic abuse, before sending her lover a text saying she was bringing domestic abuse charges against her


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526512/Woman-married-lover-one-Britains-sex-weddings-hanged-cemetery-marriage-fell-apart.html#ixzz2o0MwdG51

:::grouch:: Fun Fact :::grouch:: 
the highest level of domestic violence/abuse per capita is amongst lesbian couples.  

I think this says more about the patience of men than the sexuality, it is very hard to put up with a woman    

Is that a wind up or true veya?

I'm shocked.

All those pretty girls fighting each other?

Having said that - I had to break up a fight between our next door neighbours (who are lesbians) the other night - they were making a right racket:

I don't know about internationally but in My state yes it is true....
but they look more like this

Veya, A+ for that!!!!!!

Oh, cripes.