Ex-girlfriend of accused in Bosma murder says she wiped her prints from trailer

The former girlfriend of a man accused of murder in the death of Tim Bosma says she wiped her fingerprints off a piece of evidence hours after finding out her boyfriend had been arrested in the disappearance of the Hamilton man.

Christina Noudga told a Hamilton court that hours after Dellen Millard was charged with forcible confinement of Bosma and the theft of his truck, she cleaned her prints off a trailer she helped park at Millard’s mother’s Kleinberg, Ont., home.

Police have testified they found Bosma’s truck in a trailer at the home after receiving a call about a “suspicious trailer” that might be related to the case.

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Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Bosma’s death.

Bosma vanished on May 6, 2013, after taking two strangers for a test drive in the truck he was trying to sell.

The Crown alleges Bosma was shot at point-blank range in his truck and his body later burned in an animal incinerator known as “The Eliminator.”

Noudga said she went to the home of Madeleine Burns, Millard’s mother, the night of his arrest. She said the two booked a hotel room anticipating a media crush.

Once inside the hotel room, she said she and Burns opened a bottle of wine to talk about the situation.

“We get back to the hotel, open up a bottle of wine and we start brainstorming _ what’s in the trailer? What’s he in trouble for?”

“It led us to believe the truck was in the trailer,” Noudga told court Thursday.

She has testified she helped Millard park the trailer at Burns’s house the night before. In the hotel room, she said, they realized both had touched the trailer, she said.

“We kind of sit there,” she said. “Should we go back? Should we do something? Both of us said ‘yeah, let’s wipe down the areas we touched.”’

“And that’s exactly what happened.”

Noudga said she and Burns drove back to the house in the middle of the night, put on dish gloves and wiped down the outside of the trailer to remove their fingerprints.

Then they returned to the hotel room and drank “copious amounts of wine.”

“Did you have any concerns about your involvement?” Crown attorney Tony Leitch asked.

“My biggest concern was we touched the trailer and we’re going to get thrown into this entire mess.”

Noudga has been charged with accessory after the fact to the murder of Bosma and faces trial in November.

She said earlier in the night she was trying to find Millard and spoke to Smich on the phone.

“He said s–t went down, but I shouldn’t worry,” Noudga said.

For the second day in a row, Noudga continued to have trouble recalling details in the days after Bosma vanished and often had to reread her previous statements and notes in order to jog her memory.