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Date:
2008-11-13
Time: 16:16:28
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Amy Taylor, 28, cited unreasonable behaviour
in the court papers, describing how their
three-year marriage came to an end when she
twice walked in on her husband pretending to
have sex in an online game.
Her estranged husband is now engaged to one
of the women he had an 'affair' with on
Second Life - even though they have never
actually met in real life.
Amy told Sky News Online how she thought she
had found the love of her life when she met
David Pollard in an internet chatroom in May
2003.
They swapped photos online, and after six
months of emails and phone calls, she moved
from London into his seaside flat in
Cornwall.
The couple spent hours having fun together in
Second Life - her avatar, or alter ego, in
the 3D virtual world was Laura Skye, and his
Dave Barmy.
But her dreams were shattered three months
later when she went for an afternoon nap and
woke to find the jobless 40-year-old having
sex with an escort girl in the game.
"I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't
believe what he'd done," Amy said.
"I looked at the computer screen and could
see his character having sex with a female
character. It's cheating as far as I'm
concerned.She added: "We then made it up and
he promised he would never do anything to
hurt me again, and would never cheat on me
again."
The couple got hitched at a registry office
in St Austell in July 2005 - and even marked
the occasion by holding a virtual wedding in
Second Life.
They moved to a flat in Newquay, and carried
on their virtual lives in the online world,
but Amy knew something was wrong.
"I still had my suspicions, but couldn't my
finger on it," she said. "He never did
anything in real life, but I had my
suspicions about what he was doing in Second
Life."
And then the bombshell came in April this
year, when she found him in a compromising
position with his avatar.
"I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in
the game. It looked really affectionate," she
said. "He turned off the computer monitor,
and I turned it back on and demanded to look
at his chat history.
"But he turned off the computer so the
history was all deleted - and I ended up
going off to his Mum and Dad's in floods of
tears."
She added: "He confessed he'd been talking to
this woman player in America for one or two
weeks, and said our marriage was over and he
didn't love me anymore, and we should never
have got married."
The next day Amy went to a solicitor to file
for a divorce, which is due to be finalised
next week.
"The solicitor wasn't at all surprised - she
said it was her second divorce case involving
Second Life that week," she added.
Amy says she was down in the dumps for a
while - but now has a new man in her life,
who she met while playing the internet
fantasy role-playing game World Of Warcraft.
"But he didn't see it as a problem, and
couldn't see why I was so upset. He said I
was just making a big fuss, and tried to make
out it was my fault for not giving him enough
attention."
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