The ex-girlfriend of Dellen Millard pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice on Tuesday, negating the need for a trial on being an accessory to the murder of Tim Bosma after the fact.
Christina Noudga had been charged for her role in moving an incinerator used to burn the remains of Bosma, whose May 2013 disappearance and subsequent murder sparked national headlines.
At Millard’s trial, Noudga testified that she helped Millard move the incinerator at a farm property Millard owned on Roseville Road in North Dumfries, and never asked him why they were moving it.
Additionally, jurors heard, Noudga helped Millard’s mother wipe their fingerprints off a trailer Millard had dropped off at his mother’s house.
The trailer contained the truck Bosma left his home with, and Noudga said that it only dawned on her later that she could be “unintentionally” tampering with evidence.
Statements made by Noudga at Millard’s trial could not have been used against her at her own trial.
On Tuesday, court heard that Noudga told police about her actions as they were investigating Bosma’s death – and told them that she did not know Bosma had been killed.
The Crown and defence lawyers both petitioned the judge to give Noudga a one-year jail sentence -- which, with credit for the four months she has already spent in custody, would mean no additional time in jail. The judge granted the request.
Millard and his friend Mark Smich were convicted of first-degree murder in June for killing Bosma.
With reporting by Nicole Lampa
