Dellen Millard’s former girlfriend pleads guilty to obstructing justice

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The ex-girlfriend of Tim Bosma’s killer pleaded guilty to obstructing justice for destroying evidence in the murder. The deal comes as Christina Noudga was expected to face a 3 week trial on a more serious charge of being an accessory after the fact, a charge with a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The crown attorneys read through an 8 page agreed statement of facts focusing on text messages between Dellen Millard and Christina Noudga at the time of Bosma’s death. The judge then sentenced Noudga to one year and one day in jail, but after being credited for the 4 months she spent in jail and 2 years of house arrest, Noudga was free to leave the courthouse with her lawyer Brian Greenspan.

At the time of Tim Bosma’s disappearance on May 6th 2013, Noudga had been dating Millard. Millard texted her that night and said “I’m on my way to a mission now. If it’s a flop I’ll be done in 2hrs. If it goes… it’ll be an all nighter.” Later that evening, Millard and Smich burned Tim Bosma’s remains in an animal incinerator.

The next day Millard said “had a nice 5 hour nap and bath, refreshed and ready for the next stage of mission digestion. Noudga said “lol mission digestion” and Millard responded with a smiley face. There was no explanation of what those messages meant.

Bosma’s parents Hank and Mary were in the courtroom surrounded by family, Sharlene Bosma was not there. Crown attorney Craig Fraser spoke about the guilty plea in court today and said the Bosma family was relieved by the resolution but he went on to say that if they went forward with the accessory to murder charge that trial would have been circumstantial because there was no way of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Christina Noudga knew of the murder. During her testimony at Smich and Millard’s trial she admitted to helping move the incinerator, the trailer that held Bosma’s truck and the toolbox that is believed to have carried the gun used for the murder. Noudga said she wiped her finger prints and Millard’s mother’s off the trailer, but criminal lawyer Jeff Manishen says according to Canadian law those statements made at Millard’s trial could not be used against her.

At the end of the hearing the judge spoke directly to Noudga and said “You learn in life that when you keep company with bad people and these people were beyond that, they were evil, bad things happen”.

Noudga will have a criminal record now and was required to give a DNA sample but during her house arrest she graduated with a Bachelor in Health Science and has a job lined up in her field. 31 year old Dellen Millard and 28 year old Mark Smich, who were both found guilty of first degree murder back in June and sentenced to life in prison are appealing their verdicts.