Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle was angry and domineering in the days following his release from captivity, witnesses told his assault trial Thursday.
Boyle and his wife, Caitlan Coleman, were seized by extremists during a 2012 backpacking trip to central Asia and rescued five years later by Pakistani forces.
Coleman has testified her husband spanked, punched and slapped her during their time as hostages, and that his violent ways resumed shortly following their arrival in Canada. The Crown witnesses who testified Thursday painted a picture of Boyle as a self-absorbed man who exerted obvious control over his wife.Coleman and Boyle would speak to each other, she recalled. "But she would look to him for, I would say, cues."Rotenberry travelled to Ottawa from the United States to visit Coleman, who had fallen ill, in hospital. "She looked very tired," Rotenberry said Thursday. "She was frail, skinny.
Rotenberry became so concerned for Coleman at one point that she alerted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling an officer "some sort of safety net" was needed to protect her sister.
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