Former Afghanistan hostage Boyle is pleading not guilty to a host of charges – among them unlawful confinement, issuing threats and sexual assault
The former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle is pleading not guilty to a host of charges – among them unlawful confinement, issuing threats, sexual assault and multiple counts of assault – which eerily echo the very crimes allegedly perpetrated against him and his wife during their captivity in that war-devastated country.
What followed was a bizarre round of publicity, with Boyle doing virtually all the talking, and a controversial family selfie with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Dec. 19.Thus far the only witness to testify has been Deborah Sinclair, a social worker-cum-feminist-activist Crown prosecutors want to have qualified as an expert in domestic violence and trauma.
Other witnesses will be Coleman’s mother and two sisters ; an unidentified former neighbour who “heard interactions” between Boyle and Coleman; Janice Unger, a Global Affairs Canada director who travelled back to Canada with the family, and Ottawa Police officers who responded on Dec. 30, 2017 to Boyle’s 911 call.
In fact, Cunningham told the judge she expects Greenspon to vigorously challenge Coleman’s credibility and reliability. She told Doody he’d have to decide if Coleman’s evidence is “believable”, and that the reason for calling Sinclair is for him to understand that Coleman’s “human experience is quite different” from most people’s.
She agreed with Greenspon that she’s never testified in a case involving a “prolonged hostage situation” and that only once to her memory has she testified for the defence .“No,” said Sinclair.
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