The ex-hostage Joshua Boyle has been in conflict with the law in 2003

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Saturday, January 6, 2018 13:03

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OTTAWA | Contrary to what her lawyers said this week after the news of his arrest, Joshua Boyle, the former hostage canadian in Afghanistan, has had other free court in the past, according to the Toronto Sun.

Boyle was recently arrested and charged with assault and sexual assault. The man, 34-year-old has appeared on the 1st of January in Ottawa.

When the news broke in the national media, the lawyers of Joshua Boyle have immediately argued that it was the first pranks of their client.

“Mr. Boyle is presumed innocent of all charges against him. He has no criminal record and has never had a problem with the police”, read the statement of the lawyers Lawrence Greenspon and Eric Granger.

The “Toronto Sun” has learned that Joshua Boyle was presented in court in October 2003, in the region of Waterloo, to face a charge of theft under $ 5000. The prosecution has been abandoned, however.

Since the news of the arrest of Boyle, stakeholders have criticized the prime minister Justin Trudeau for having hosted the man, his wife and his three children, born in captivity, in his office before Christmas.

All had been rescued during the fall of last year and arrived in Canada on the 13th of October. The couple had been captured by fighters linked to the taliban in October 2012, while they were in Afghanistan.

In the eyes of many, the free court of Boyle in addition to the doubts already expressed as to the history of one who has led his wife into a vacation in Afghanistan while she was seven months pregnant.

Joshua Boyle had developed a fixation on the phenomenon of terrorism after the attacks of 11 September in the United States, according to a survey by the “National Post”. In the aftermath, he had started to feed an obsession for the family Khadr, very close to the deceased terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, then involved in a legal saga for terrorism in Toronto.

He has been married to Zaynab Khadr, sister of Omar Khadr, from 2009 to 2011.

Joshua Boyle must return to the court Monday. He faces 15 counts of assault (8), sexual assault (2), forcible confinement (2), death threat (1), false statements (1) and to having forced someone to take of Trazodone, an antidepressant which can have a sedative effect.