Jury in Bosma trial has questions

Just hours into deliberations, the jury in the Tim Bosma murder trial returned with their first of two questions.

At about 8 p.m. Monday — the first day of deliberations on a verdict for the two men accused of first-degree murder, Dellen Millard and Mark Smich — Justice Andrew Goodman was alerted that the jurors had a query.

They wanted to know about Sharlene Bosma’s testimony — and about Tim Bosma’s trip to get gas before he took two men on a test drive of his truck.

“Tim went to fill up the truck with gas. Is there mention of the time Tim got gas? We’d like to review Mrs. Bosma’s testimony,” the question read.

Goodman told them that there had been no time given, and instructed the jury to wrap up for the night.

Back in court Tuesday morning, Millard’s lawyer Ravin Pillay said he had a chance to review Sharlene’s testimony and confirmed there was no mention of Bosma going to get gas that night.

The jury was called back in, and Goodman corrected their “misapprehension of the evidence.”

A second question about testimony arose late Tuesday; again the jury was brought back in, to be told that the question could best be answered by listening to a recording, which will be made available to the jury today.

Millard, 30, and Smich, 28, were both charged in the death of Bosma, who disappeared May 6, 2013, after taking them for a test drive of his pickup truck.

He was shot in his truck, his body then burned in an incinerator outside Millard’s air hangar at the Region of Waterloo airport.

Each blames the other for the murder, saying they were just out that night to “scope out” a truck to steal.

But the Crown says the two defendants came up with the lethal plan together.

The jury deliberations continue.