Bosma trial

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Today in the Tim Bosma murder trial Mark Smich told the court he has no idea where he buried the gun used to kill Bosma. His lawyer finished questioning his client today and Smich insists he wasn’t in the truck when Tim Bosma was shot dead and he testified he had no idea that murder was on the agenda. His co-accused, Dellen Millard has chosen not to testify.

Smich continues to put all the blame on his co-accused, Dellen Millard. He said yesterday that he was surprised and shocked to see Tim Bosma dead, that he was expecting to just case out a truck to steal later and that as the events unfolded on May 6 2013, he was just following Millard’s lead. Today he said he thought Millard was trying to frame him for Bosma’s murder.

His lawyer, Thomas Dungey asked Smich what he meant in May 2013, when he told his girlfriend Marlena Meneses that he had f’d up. “I went on the test drive” Smich said. Meneses had told him not to, when he described in advance, the plan was to steal a truck from ads on Kijiji and Autotrader. After Dellen Millard was arrested, Smich says he and Meneses wanted to get marijuana that was in Millard’s house. He says he asked Millard’s roommate Andrew Michalski to bring it and Smich says he was shocked to get not only weed, but a yellow toolbox. There was a thick cloth inside, he says and when he took the cloth out, a gun fell.

However, Michalski testified earlier that Smich asked not only for drugs, but the package that Millard had given their friend Matt Hagerman, that was the toolbox and gun. Millard and his girlfriend delivered it to Hagerman at about 4am, after moving Tim Bosma’s truck and the incinerator used to burn his body. Smich says he put the gun and drugs in a washing machine in the garage of his mother’s house. His friend, Brendan Daly helped move it.

“I jumped on my bike, rode out into the forest, and buried it.” Smich says he has no idea where, there are lots of ravines and paths in Oakville, he said. His lawyer asked why he didn’t take the gun to police, Smich says he was scared and confused.

On Monday Smich will face cross examination by Dellen Millard’s lawyer, who will try to tear apart his credibility. Then he’ll face cross examination by the crown, who will do the same.