The tragic proof that sometimes love really CAN'T conquer all: When Rick was horribly maimed in Afghanistan, Leanne insisted their wedding went ahead. It seemed a joyous affirmation of the power of love...

• Sergeant Rick Clement stepped on a mine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
• He lost both legs, but also the ability to have sex or have children
• Rick and Leanne still married in 2011 hoping their love would be enough
• But the relationship disintegrated and they are set to divorce

By Frances Hardy
PUBLISHED: 22:15 GMT, 15 May 2013 | UPDATED: 11:58 GMT, 16 May 2013

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Few love affairs can have been more intense than the one Rick and Leanne Clement shared.
Rick was a soldier, a sergeant in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, and his relationship with Leanne was punctuated by partings and reunions; by yearning and then passion.
But three years ago, Rick was critically injured while on duty in Afghanistan.
He stepped on a Taliban mine while leading a foot patrol in Helmand Province and lost both his legs.
The injuries to his lower body were, quite simply, catastrophic. Rick, 33, was not only deprived of his sex life and his chance to have children, he also ceased to feel any physical attraction for the woman he still adored.
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Loved: Despite their marriage Leanne has left Rick and the spacious four-bedroom home they shared in Blackpool because their relationship disintegrated after he stepped on a mine

Even so, Rick and Leanne, 31, were married in a lavish ceremony at Little Singleton, Lancashire in June 2011. Leanne believed optimistically - and wrongly, as it turned out - that, with love and patience, their problems could be surmounted.


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