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The couple arrived back in Canada at Toronto’s Pearson airport on Oct. 13, with their three young children. Media scrambled to see them and hear their story. After release, they first stayed at the Boyle family home in Smiths Falls, Ont. The public was entranced and perplexed.

Boyle’s ability to make odd statements continued in the weeks ahead. In a recent interview with Maclean’s magazine he said they had to leave his parent’s small home because “it was intolerable.”

Signs of Boyle’s controlling nature emerged during Maclean’s interviews — he refused to leave the room while Coleman spoke and at one point chastised her for answering a question, saying “Check with me before you say any of that on the recording,” Maclean’s reported.

On Dec. 19, the couple met with Trudeau at his office in Ottawa. Photos of the meeting — with Ma’idah Grace, their youngest child, bouncing on the Prime Minister’s knee, Dhakwœn Noah, 2, posing for pictures, while Najæshi Jonah, 5, seen rearranging furniture — were released by the family on a Twitter account confrontationally called @BoylesVsWorld.

Boyle said he spoke with Trudeau about the Haqqani network and their role in his wife’s miscarriage.

The pinned message on the Twitter account, in fancy script, says: “The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.”

It is a mantra he seems to have been reminding himself for years despite having plenty to say about things he wanted to talk about, and little to offer on those he did not.

Boyle remains in jail awaiting his next court appearance, scheduled for Jan 8. A court order prevents publication of information that would identify the alleged victims.

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