Closing arguments in the Tim Bosma trial

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Closing arguments have ended in the Tim Bosma murder trial. This week of the trial has been dominated by lawyers for the accused and crown making their final appeals to the jury members who’ve spent the past four and half months listening to painful and tragic testimony about how Tim Bosma was killed.

Crown Tony Leitch spent the day going through evidence that he says shows Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were planning this murder together, for more than a year. He told the jury not to get muddled with wondering who had the gun and who pulled the trigger. It doesn’t matter if they both planned the murder and one helped the other pull it off, they’re both guilty of first degree murder.

Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were happy and celebrating when they picked up Marlena Meneses after a full night of theft, murder and the incineration of Tim Bosma’s body Marlena Meneses, Smich’s girlfriend, described on the stand. “The mission went well, and they were celebrating, that’s all you need to know.

Crown Tony Leitch told the jury that mood puts a lie to everything Mark Smich said on the stand and Dellen Millard said through his lawyers. If Tim Bosma’s death were an accident, at least one of them would have been upset.

This was not a financially motivated crime, Leitch said, even though Millard clearly had money problems in May of 2013, getting a high interest loan to close a condo and asking his mom to sell her house. But this murder was for a thrill. This was Millard and Smich playing Grand Theft Auto for real, said Leitch.

It started with wanting a diesel truck. Millard spent more than $10 000 in gasoline pulling his jeep down to Mexico for a race, and next time he wanted it cheaper. By early 2012, the plan to steal a Dodge 3500 was intensifying. Then they got a gun and bullets for the gun. Then they needed a way to get rid of the victim. Millard had his mechanic try to build an incinerator but it didn’t work, so they ordered one made for farm animals.

If one or the other accused was surprised by the shooting of Tim Bosma, he wouldn’t have gone along so wholeheartedly in the days that followed, Leitch said. If they weren’t together, they were on the phone or messaging. Dellen the Felon and Say10- the team.

The crown’s voice broke near the end of the day as he urged the jury, when you retire to decide your verdict, don’t forget Tim Bosma.

The judge told the jury he needs more time to craft his charge, so they are not back until next Friday June 10. They’ll hear the first part of his charge then come back the following week for the rest, and then they’ll be sequestered and start deliberations.