Deborah Furlong

Thursdays Furlong: The two had been married 299 days, according to CBC. Furlong says a doctor at a Dublin hospital told him she was dead: "It was the most broken I think I've ever felt." One of the worst mornings of my life' At times emotional and at times testy, Furlong took the stand in his own defence at the start of the second week of a landmark civil defamation suit. Furlong testified in B.C. Supreme Court that Deborah Furlong died in a car accident in April 2013 while the two were in Ireland escaping stress from publication of allegations he abused children in Burns Lake more than 40 years earlier. "It cost me my wife," he said. The reporter who wrote the September 2012 article, Laura Robinson, claims Furlong defamed her in his responses to the piece, implying she was unethical, unprofessional and motivated by a personal vendetta. The Georgia Straight hits the streets on Thursdays; Furlong said he talked with his family in the week before the article appeared. Furlong described a mounting sense of horror leading up to publication, as Robinson contacted personal and business associates, detailing allegations of abuse and asking for comment. "It became very clear that this was becoming nasty," he said. "I thought she'd already decided." Freelance journalist Laura Robinson is suing former Olympics CEO John Furlong for allegedly defaming her in his responses to her article. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.