Caitlan Coleman details night she fled from estranged husband Joshua Boyle
OTTAWA — Caitlan Coleman pulled on three or four layers of socks the night she fled from her estranged husband, Joshua Boyle, she told his criminal trial Monday.
It was late at night on Dec. 30, 2017, and the temperature was dropping to about -20 in Ottawa, where the two former captives in Afghanistan lived. Coleman frantically knocked on doors for help in frigid temperatures. She eventually made her way to a hotel where her mother was staying.
Before dawn, police had arrested her husband. Boyle, 35, is now on trial on charges that include sexual assault and unlawful confinement, against Coleman and another person.
Coleman painted a picture of their roller-coaster relationship, including how she tried to divorce Boyle in 2012, an incident in which she allegedly pushed him on a subway platform in Toronto, and the night of Boyle’s arrest.