Bosma trial enters 3rd day of testimony

The Crown alleged Monday that Dellen Millard, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, from Oakville, Ont., shot and killed Tim Bosma inside his truck, before incinerating his body.

Clark Kingwood also took to the stand on Wednesday to testify that he found Bosma’s cellphone in Brantford, Ont., after his disappearance.

The man told Jackson that he had taken two men for a test drive, and described one of them as having a tattoo on his wrist that said “ambition”.

Eventually, on May 10, police received information from “two reliable police sources in Toronto and Peel”, court heard, that informed them a man named Dellen Millard had an ambition tattoo.

Police could not find a person with the same name, and noticed the address on the phone contract led to a Toronto high school.

Through Bosma’s phone records, he testified that police tracked down the number that had exchanged calls with him on May 6 before the appointment.

The day after his disappearance, Sgt. Greg Jackson testified, police combed Bosma’s cell records to track down the phone he’d exchanged calls with.

Investigators then received Millard’s cellphone records and cell tower locations that showed a call from his phone to a number in Ancaster at 9:02 p.m. on the day Bosma went missing, Jackson said.

At 7:22 p.m., the Bate phone contacted Bosma’s phone.

Those records showed that Millard’s phone was pinging off similar towers as the Lucas Bate phone the night of May 6, Jackson testified. Sergeant Jackson is discussing the roles of each detective in charge.

Staff Sgt. Paul Hamilton was one of the detectives, and his testimony resulted in a surreal moment in court.

Hamilton testified that when he arrived at the airport hangar, Millard “made a comment that the ‘suits are here”‘.

“She texted and said Tim wasn’t back and she was getting anxious”, De Boer told court. He says he thought that was odd because no one gets dropped off in the country.

When Hamilton was asked to point out if Millard was in the courtroom and was the same person he spoke to at the hangar in Waterloo, the accused waved at the officer in the witness box.

“He said, “let’s put a pause on this” and went back to his office, closed the door”, Hamilton said.

The two officers then left the hanger and called Waterloo Regional police for help with surveillance.

They were able to trace the phone number, Jackson says, to the one used to call both Bosma and the man who went on the previous day’s test drive to a shop in west-end Toronto. He handed the phone over to a woman working there, Elizabeth Roswell.

“I started driving home, called Sharlene and she asked if I could check a few more parking lots, and again seeing nothing, I returned back home”, he said.

Crown attorney Craig Fraser said police found gunshot residue as well as Bosma’s blood both inside and outside the vehicle, and some of Bosma’s bones were located inside the incinerator.

Fraser said they have video of the incinerator being used outside Millard’s airport hangar in the early morning hours after Bosma disappeared.

He also said that two of Bosma’s bones, and many fragments, were also found in the machine.