COLEMAN TESTIFIES AGAINST BOYLE

  The blackest period of Caitlan Coleman’s curious life, spent largely in the immense shadows cast by Joshua Boyle, came when she was living in the rudimentary toilet room of the couple’s quarters in Afghanistan.
  The pair were kidnapped by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network about a week after they had entered the war-torn country in 2012, an “adventure” driven by Boyle’s belief that “the better cultures are Indigenous cultures, poor cultures” and that there they would live among the gentle Pashtun people.
  “He (Boyle) told me I had to stay in the bathroom stall,” Coleman told Ontario Court Judge Peter Doody Wednesday as she began testifying at Boyle’s trial on 19 criminal charges, most of which relate to alleged physical abuse of her. 

   Within weeks of arriving back in Canada, they were staying at the Embassy Hotel in Ottawa, and the old familiar cycle began again: verbal abuse, then physical abuse that allegedly included punches, slaps, spanking, choking and even biting.