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28th February 1996: A marriage between two such fiery individuals as Jim and Liz McDonald was always going to be tempestuous but his anger exploded into violence one night when the two of them attended a reunion of Jim's army buddies. A long-standing friend of Jim's and an honorary uncle to the boys, Johnny Johnson, was there. He and Liz had had a brief fling many years before when Jim was away on army business and Liz was feeling particularly lonely. The two had managed to keep their secret ever since but at the reunion Jim overheard Johnny telling Liz that he had married his new wife as she looked like her. When Jim questioned this, Johnny told Jim that all the blokes in the army fancied Liz and this roused his jealous anger. On the way home, he threw question after question her way until she broke and admitted the affair, at which point he told her she was a whore, beat her up and abandoned her in the road at a service station. From thereon in, any chance of a peaceful continuance of their marriage was doomed.
 * For more information see Episode 3980 (28th February 1996).