Bosma day 23

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Dellen Millard’s uncle testified at the Tim Bosma murder trial on Thursday.

Millard and Mark Smich are the accused in the 2013 death of Hamilton man, Tim Bozma, who police say was burned beyond recognition.

Millard reportedly told people he bought the animal incinerator found on his farm because he wanted to go into the pet cremation business with that uncle, who is a Veterinarian in Vaughan.

But that story, a jury heard, was ludicrous to the uncle.

Robert Burns is the brother of Madeleine Burns, Millard’s mother.

He called himself the “biological” uncle, he said he looked after Dellen out of altruism from when he was a toddler until he was a teen, when Wayne Millard and Madeleine Burns were separated.

Burns wouldn’t look his nephew in the eye, avoided Millard’s fixed gaze the whole time, but he smiled and nodded several times to Sharlene Bosma.

Robert Burns says his relationship with his nephew was distant, but he sometimes looked after Dellen Millard’s pets.

He introduced Millard to his business neighbour, a computer expert, when Millard expressed interest.

It was from that neighbour that burns found out Millard had purchased an animal incinerator, and was telling people it was to start a pet cremation business with his uncle.

He said he never had a conversation about this with Millard, and wouldn’t have had any interest in cremating his client’s pets. he uses a service for that.

Another man testified that he was in the masonry shop across from the Millard Hangar on May 9, 2013, and watched what surveillance cameras picked up. A red truck with a cap leaves the hangar, does a u-turn and goes back inside the hangar door. It later leaves again, only this time instead of a cap over the bed of the truck there’s a fifth wheel trailer.

The witness agreed it looked just like the one found with Tim Bosma’s truck inside, at Millard’s mother’s house. in fact when he heard about Tim Bosma’s disappearance on the news, he connected the two and called police.