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MANDEL: Narcissistic killer Dellen Millard recognized as a lost cause
Michele Mandel
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Updated:
December 19, 2018 8:38 AM EST
Once again, Dellen Millard will enter the history books.
The narcissistic serial killer must love that – though we wonder how much comfort that will bring as he looks at spending the rest of his sorry life behind bars.
At 14, he made the newspapers for being Canada’s youngest pilot. Almost two decades later, he’s set a more nefarious record: Millard has become the first murderer in Ontario sentenced to three consecutive life terms with no chance of parole for 75 years.
To which the haggard Millard simply smirked and turned his eyes to the ceiling.
Crown wants triple killer Millard jailed until at least age 102
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Millard killed dad to get millions in inheritance: Crown
What an ignoble ending for the privileged playboy poised to inherit the aviation maintenance business his father Wayne Millard was building for his only child and heir. Instead of gratitude, he shot his father through the eye and made it look like a suicide, just as coldly as he murdered his former Toronto girlfriend Laura Babcock and Ancaster stranger Tim Bosma.
Along with his partner-in-crime, Mark Smich, Millard is already serving two consecutive life sentences for killing Babcock and Bosma and incinerating their remains in The Eliminator. Does it really matter that he was sentenced to a third consecutive — rather than a concurrent — life term for murdering his dad?
That he’ll now have to wait 75 years and not 50 before he can apply for release?
Laura Babcock, left, and Tim Bosma were murdered by Dellen Millard and Mark Smich, juries found.
Barring any slim chance on appeal, the 33-year-old was never going to know freedom again either way. But this was a message that you don’t get to take a life for free — and certainly not that of your own ailing father.
Now Millard will be 102 before he can apply for release.
There was a sense of finality and satisfaction as Ontario Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell delivered her sentence to a courtroom filled with media, victims’ relatives and even some jurors from the Babcock trial.
“Dellen Millard has repeatedly committed the most serious offence known to our law,” she said.
“He has done so with considerable planning and premeditation. In the murder of his father, he took advantage of the vulnerability of his father and betrayed his father’s trust in him.”
The gun used in Wayne Millard’s death is shown at the murder trial of Dellen Millard. (Court supplied photo)
The killer’s lawyer had argued that a third consecutive life sentence would be unfairly harsh and would remove any incentive for good behaviour or rehabilitation.
The judge, though, recognized Millard as a lost cause whose chances of being rehabilitated are “so faint’ that they didn’t even enter the equation.
Laura Babcock, left, and Tim Bosma were murdered by Dellen Millard and Mark Smich, juries found.
”Mr. Millard committed three planned and deliberate murders in a period of less than one year,“ she said.
”It is necessary to impose a further penalty in order to express society’s condemnation of each of the murders that he has committed and to acknowledge the harm done to each of the victims. It is not unduly long and harsh.“
Convicted killer Dellen Millard. Facebook
Millard was handcuffed for the final time in this courthouse and led away to applause.
It’s been such a long road: First a Hamilton trial that saw Millard and Smich convicted for the senseless thrill kill of Bosma and then two Toronto trials — the sensational jury trial last year where he unsuccessfully represented himself on charges he murdered the missing Babcock and then the judge-alone conviction in September for killing his father.
”Today is a great day for justice,“ Crown attorney Jill Cameron told reporters.
”We are relieved that the last chapter of this lengthy saga has come to an end.“
Linda Babcock, left, mother of murder victim Laura Babcock, and Crown Jill Cameron, who prosecuted Dellen Millard, speak to the media after Millard’s sentencing on Tuesday December 18, 2018. Stan Behal/Toronto Sun
Cameron was assigned these cases back in 2014 and along with Ken Lockhart, prosecuted Millard for both the murders of Babcock and his father.
She never let him get in her head, she said, even as he sashayed about the courtroom pretending to be a lawyer. She knew she bore the trust and hopes of the victims’ families.
”The trials were incredibly intense. We didn’t sleep a lot and we worried a lot and we worked a lot,“ she explained later in an interview. ”It’s a huge relief to be able to move on from all this.“
The end, though, comes with no satisfying answers.
The spoiled rich kid had it all — why would he go on to kill three people? Was it out of boredom? Sport? A cocky belief that he could get away with anything?
”I really don’t know,“ said Det. Sgt. Mike Carbone.
”We may never know. I think that’s the bottom line.“
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so the ever suffering taxpayers is on the hook for three hots and a cot for 50 years or so. How much does 20ft of resuasble rope cost?
 

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Still cheaper than a 126 person delegation to a Climate change meeting in Poland that accomplished nothing but agree to give more Canadian taxpayer money to 3rd world countries under the guise of Carbon credits. At least this money means this dude will never see the light of day again.
 

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MANDEL: Narcissistic killer Dellen Millard recognized as a lost cause
Michele Mandel
Published:
December 19, 2018
Updated:
December 19, 2018 8:38 AM EST
Once again, Dellen Millard will enter the history books.
The narcissistic serial killer must love that – though we wonder how much comfort that will bring as he looks at spending the rest of his sorry life behind bars.
At 14, he made the newspapers for being Canada’s youngest pilot. Almost two decades later, he’s set a more nefarious record: Millard has become the first murderer in Ontario sentenced to three consecutive life terms with no chance of parole for 75 years.
To which the haggard Millard simply smirked and turned his eyes to the ceiling.
Crown wants triple killer Millard jailed until at least age 102

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http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...en-millard-to-be-sentenced-in-death-of-father


Right there is full justification for reinstating the death penalty!
 

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Dellen Millard appeals conviction, sentence for dad's murder
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January 23, 2019
Updated:
January 23, 2019 7:51 AM EST
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Triple killer Dellen Millard is appealing his first-degree murder conviction and sentence for the death of his father, arguing the outcome of his case was unreasonable.
Millard was found guilty in September of murdering his dad, Wayne Millard, whose death in 2012 was initially ruled a suicide.
In December, Justice Maureen Forestell sentenced the 33-year-old to his third consecutive life sentence, which means Dellen Millard will serve 75 years in prison before being able to apply for parole.
Two days after being sentenced, Millard filed a notice of appeal disputing Forestell’s conclusions.
“The verdict is unreasonable,” Millard wrote in the document dated Dec. 20. “The sentence is unconstitutional.”
Millard, who had pleaded not guilty to the murder of his father, a wealthy aviation executive, is also appealing his first-degree murder convictions and sentences for the deaths of Hamilton’s Tim Bosma, a complete stranger, and Toronto’s Laura Babcock, his one-time lover.
He committed those two murders with his former friend, Mark Smich, who is also appealing the verdicts in those cases.
Forestell, who presided over the Wayne Millard case without a jury, found that Dellen Millard shot his 71-year-old father through the left eye as he slept on Nov. 29, 2012.
MANDEL: Narcissistic killer Dellen Millard recognized as a lost cause
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She found that Millard took steps to set up a false alibi by leaving his car, a cell phone and his credit card at Smich’s house while he took a taxi to his father’s place in the middle of the night.
Forestell said at sentencing last month that there was faint hope for Millard’s rehabilitation.
“Dellen Millard has repeatedly committed the most serious offence known to our law,” she said. “He has done so with considerable planning and premeditation. In the murder of his father, he took advantage of the vulnerability of his father and betrayed his father’s trust in him.”
Laura Babcock, left, and Tim Bosma were murdered by Dellen Millard and Mark Smich, juries found.
Millard’s defence attorney argued the consecutive sentence without parole eligibility was unduly long and harsh but the judge disagreed.
“It is necessary to impose a further penalty in order to express society’s condemnation of each of the murders that he has committed and to acknowledge the harm done to each of the victims,” she said.
“Dellen Millard is capable of gaining the trust of friends, relatives and strangers. Mr. Millard has, however, used his ability to gain such trust as a vehicle for planned and deliberate killings.”
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/dellen-millard-appeals-conviction-sentence-for-dads-murder
 

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Right there is full justification for reinstating the death penalty!
He's a nasty bit of business, all right.

What is the point of keeping him alive in captivity, never to see freedom again? Isn't that crueler than execution?
 

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Millard murder victim Laura Babcock's family fights to have her declared dead
Brad Hunter
Published:
October 2, 2019
Updated:
October 2, 2019 7:34 PM EDT
Laura Babcock screenshot from a video shown at the murder trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.
Laura Babcock didn’t get a chance to vote in the 2015 federal election and provincial and municipal elections in 2018.
In fact, the young woman never had a chance to do much of anything.
She is dead, the victim of her psychopath ex-boyfriend Dellen Millard and his buddy Mark Smich.
That was 2012.
Those tragic facts didn’t stop Elections Canada from sending a voter card to the family home in Etobicoke, CBC News reports.
Dellen Millard, top right, and Mark Smich, bottom right, have been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Laura Babcock, left.
“It just hurts all over again,” her mother Linda Babcock told CBC News. “Two men are in prison for murdering her … she’s not lost at sea. We know what happened.”
The Babcocks have been trying to have their daughter officially declared dead for years.
And they’re trying to change the system. They don’t want other families to go through the agony they have.
Laura Babcock was one of three people murdered by Millard, 34.
The rich-kid killer was also convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his father Wayne and Hamilton-area man Tim Bosma.
The problem for authorities is that Babcock’s remains have never been found and as a result, there is no death certificate.
Clayton Babcock, right, and Linda Babcock read a statement outside a Toronto courthouse on Monday, February 26, 2018, after a sentencing hearing for Dellen Millard and Mark Smich, who were convicted of the first degree murder of their daughter Laura Babcock. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
A death certificate requires a cause of death and the manner in which it unfolded.
“A coroner cannot complete the medical certificate of death in the case of Ms. Babcock as they cannot answer the questions about cause and manner without examining a body,” Office of the Chief Coroner spokesman Cheryl Mahyr told CBC News.
But in the eyes of the court — and her family — Laura Babcock is dead.
As a result, voter cards keep showing up.
Linda Babcock said she believes she now needs to get a lawyer and go to court to have her beloved daughter declared dead.
“But then this could happen again,” she said. “That’s why I’m holding out for a law to be put in place … if I just (went to court again), nothing would change.

http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...cocks-family-fights-to-have-her-declared-dead
 

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Lawmakers applaud Babcock family for sparking change to death certificate rules
Canadian Press
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December 11, 2019
Updated:
December 11, 2019 2:29 PM EST
Murder victim Laura Babcock is shown in a Toronto Police Service handout photo.
A Toronto family has received a standing ovation from Ontario lawmakers for their efforts to change the heart-wrenching process to get a death certificate for people whose remains have not been found.
Linda and Clayton Babcock struggled for 18 months to get a death certificate for their daughter, Laura Babcock, who was murdered in 2012.
Clayton and Linda Babcock, parents of slain Laura Babcock, outside 361 University Ave. courthouse on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (Craig Robertsoni/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
Because Babcock vanished and her body was never found, the coroner could not declare her dead under existing laws.
Despite that, a jury found two men –Dellen Millard and Mark Smich — guilty of her murder in 2017.
MANDEL: What the Laura Babcock jury didn't hear
LAURA BABCOCK CASE: What’s a murder without a body?
The Premier and other ministers helped the Babcocks get their daughter’s death certificate.
Story continues below
The couple was on hand at Queen’s Park today as the province announced “Laura’s Law,” aimed at ensuring no other family in similar circumstances will have to go through the same bureaucratic process.

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Murder victim's mom says 'our torture continues' as Millard and Smich sentences to be reduced
Killers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich are appealing, but already expect reduced sentences thanks to last year's Supreme Court decision

Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Published Jan 28, 2023 • 5 minute read

Each life deserves equal justice. But Laura Babcock has had hers stolen, her life taken with no repercussions at all.


When thrill killers Dellen Millard, 37, and Mark Smich, 35, appeal their convictions in March for murdering the beautiful young Toronto woman, it’s inevitable that Ontario’s highest court will reduce their sentences.


Inevitable, but “disgusting,” says Babcock’s mother Linda.

Found guilty first of murdering Ancaster dad Tim Bosma, then Babcock and finally his own father Wayne, Millard was sentenced in 2018 to the longest known term in Ontario history — a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 75 years.


Convicted of killing Bosma and Babcock, his former best friend and partner in crime was sent away for life with no parole eligibility for 50 years.

But thanks to a controversial ruling by the Supreme Court last May striking down consecutive periods of parole ineligibility as “cruel and unusual punishment,” these heartless killers will no longer have to appeal their sentences.


Their terms will invariably be reduced to what they would have received if they’d murdered just one person — life with the ability to apply for parole in 25 years.

“As far as we understand, it’s become a moot point since the Supreme Court decided Bissonnette,” said Smich’s appeal lawyer Richard Litkowski, referring to the deciding case involving Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette. “It’s a done deal.”

He believes public outrage is misplaced.

“A person is sentenced to life; people only have one life to give,” the lawyer explained. “I think the common misconception is that the sentence is 25 years. The sentence is not 25 years, it’s a life sentence.”

And the 25-year mark isn’t an automatic get out of jail free card.


“As we know from experience in many of these cases, it’s highly unlikely,” Litkowski added. “People are not routinely granted the opportunity to be released after 25 years.”



Millard and Smich have been in custody since their arrests in May 2013, so the pair have 15 years to go before they can make their first attempt. But Linda Babcock thought she’d never have to face her daughter’s killers at a parole hearing. Now that slim comfort is being ripped away.


“Whenever I see the Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy families when Bernardo comes up for parole, my heart breaks for them. And now we’ll be going through the same thing, which is so unfair,” she says in an interview.

“That’s what the Supreme Court has done to us; it’s made the rest of our lives about waiting for parole hearings. So our torture continues.

“And in our minds, Millard got a life sentence for Tim Bosma’s murder and ours was a freebie, so was his dad’s.”

More than 10 years ago, her 23-year-old daughter dropped off her dog at her parents’ Etobicoke home. And then she vanished. Couch-surfing for months, the beautiful but troubled U of T grad had worked part-time as an escort and struggled with mental health issues, so Toronto Police paid little attention to the worries of her family and friends.


Or to their concerns that eight of Babcock’s last phone calls had been to Millard, the sketchy playboy aviation heir she’d dated.

Together with his drug-dealing, wannabe rapper buddy, Millard almost got away with her murder but for the duo’s high-profile slaying the following year of Bosma, a popular Ancaster family man who disappeared in May 2013 after giving two men a test drive of the truck he’d listed for sale.

Descriptions of the potential buyers eventually led investigators to Millard and Smich.

But Babcock was their first kill.


Millard wanted her dead because she was complicating his love life — still infatuated with him after a short romance, she’d told his current girlfriend, Christina Noudga, that they were still sleeping together.

Millard assured the jealous Noudga in texts from April 2012 that “first I am going to hurt her. Then I’ll make her leave.”

In another, he promised he’d “remove her from our lives.”

And so he did. On the evening of July 3, 2012, GPS signals showed the phones of both Millard and Babcock were together at Kipling TTC station and then at his Etobicoke home, where the Crown argued the young woman was shot to death.

He and Smich then cremated her body in The Eliminator, Millard’s newly-purchased industrial animal incinerator that he hooked up outside his hangar at the Waterloo airport. Smich later wrote a horrifying rap about it on Babcock’s iPad: “The b—- started off all skin and bone, now the b—- lay on some ashy stone …”


The Bosma trial was held first and after their convictions in Hamilton, Millard and Smich were tried in Toronto for Babcock’s murder. In his appeal, the rich kid complains that he was unfairly forced to represent himself because Justice Michael Code refused his many requests to delay the trial to allow Millard to access his frozen funds and hire a lawyer who’d have enough time to prepare his case.

The Babcock appeal, prepared by lawyer Ravin Pillay, also claims Millard has “fresh evidence” of a second witness who spotted Babcock in the fall of 2013 at an Etobicoke bulk food store, long after Millard was supposed to have killed her.

When it comes to appealing his convictions for murdering his father and Bosma, the serial killer is apparently representing himself — as he did at the Babcock trial.

“How could he miss out on another chance to grandstand?” says his victim’s mother. “He gets his name and face in the paper, he’s a somebody again.”

For his appeals, Smich insists the two trial judges made many legal errors, including using evidence against him that only implicated his co-accused. He admits there’s “strong evidence” he helped burn Babcock’s body, but denies taking part in her murder.

“Part of the problem at trial from my perspective is both of the accused were dealt with almost as a single entity,” his lawyer said. “We think the Crown’s cases against our client at both trials was far weaker than the ones against Mr. Millard.”

The appeals are scheduled to be heard during the week of March 13 by the same panel of judges, with both Millard and Smich seeking new trials. “It’s emotionally draining and I’m not looking forward to it,” says Babcock’s mom. “I have two more months to suffer and I’m counting the days and we’ll see what happens.”

Before that grueling trip downtown to the Ontario Court of Appeal, there will be another painful visit in a few weeks to a bench they have in a local park to lay flowers to mark their daughter’s birthday.

“She would have been 34,” Babcock says softly, her voice catching.

“It’s so unfair,” she adds, that softness replaced by anger. “We have a life sentence. Theirs is not a life sentence anymore.”

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Murder victim's mom says 'our torture continues' as Millard and Smich sentences to be reduced
Killers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich are appealing, but already expect reduced sentences thanks to last year's Supreme Court decision
Ahhhh yes. Welcome to trudeau's canada.
 

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Serial killer Dellen Millard acting as own lawyer in jailhouse stabbing
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Feb 15, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read

Time in the joint doesn’t appear to have diminished rich kid serial killer Dellen Millard’s grandiose self-image.


Millard is again acting as his own lawyer in his jailhouse assault causing bodily harm charge, The Kingstonist reports.


According to the local news website, Millard appeared in court on Jan. 30, before Justice Geoffrey Griffin. His appearance was for the continuation of a trial that kicked off last October.

Millard, 37, is accused of stabbing fellow inmate Sean Trites, 32, at Millhaven Institution on July 11, 2021. Another inmate also allegedly participated in the attack.


Trites was taken to a local hospital and treated.

The Kingstonist reported that for Millard’s appearance, besides cops and corrections officers, only his mom sat in support of her boy. Madeline Burns was divorced from the convicted murderer’s father, Wayne, in 1996.


She reportedly had to be cautioned to quiet down following an outburst at the Crown’s line of questioning.

Shackled and escorted by two corrections officers, Millard had no comment when asked by Kingstonist reporter Michelle Dorey Forestell for his thoughts.


Millard is one of the most notorious residents at Millhaven.

The aviation scion was convicted for the 2013 murder of Hamilton man, Tim Bosma. Millard and a pal used the ruse of buying Bosma’s pick-up truck to steal it. He was also convicted of murdering his former girlfriend, Laura Babcock and his father Wayne.

Millard’s sentences were stacked — 25 years per victim — for a total of 75 years in prison. But following a controversial ruling by the Supreme Court last May striking down consecutive periods of parole ineligibility as “cruel and unusual punishment,” Millard will likely be able to apply for parole after 25 years.


On the stabbing matter, Trites refused to leave his cell to testify.

The Kingstonist reported that the judge torpedoed Millard’s request to allow a letter from Trites to be entered into evidence instead of a physical appearance.

Enter legal eagle, Dellen Millard.

He called Terrell Sullivan — a former range mate — as witness via video and offered him a good morning and noted he was “looking well.”

Sullivan testified he could “see a bit” of the ruckus and heard the unfolding drama.

“Sean [Trites] and another inmate [named Sumner]… I don’t know his real name,” Sullivan said, adding at that point Millard was not involved, “it was over a girlfriend and someone calling [someone else’s] girlfriend” on the phone.

He added: “I heard you saying ‘Just go to your cell, just don’t do this, stop.’ I seen you. I seen you throw Sean away from [the other inmate]…trying to, like, break up the fight.”

As per The Kingstonist, Sullivan told Crown Attorney Tim Kavanagh the brouhaha started in the kitchen.

Another witness also attested to Dellen Millard being the peacemaker. The Crown was not buying it.

The inmate testified that Millard was an “outstanding” and “non-violent” person. The convicted killer, the man said, “doesn’t get in the middle of other people’s problems” and actually breaks up brawls.

The trial continues.

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Millard, Smich murder appeals reopen wounds for victim’s family
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Published Mar 12, 2023 • Last updated 23 hours ago • 4 minute read

It’s been more than 10 years since Linda Babcock’s daughter was murdered, a decade’s worth of milestones and memories she says were stolen by the men who killed her child.


When Dellen Millard and Mark Smich make their appeals before Ontario’s highest court starting Monday, they will be entitled to reduced sentences for their multiple murder convictions — cutting 50 years and 25 years off their respective parole ineligibility periods.


Babcock says when that happens, she’ll feel like justice for her daughter, Laura Babcock, will have been stolen too.

“She gets no justice whatsoever,” Linda Babcock said in an interview.

“My feeling is if you point a gun and shoot somebody, then you do it to somebody else, those are two murders and they should be treated (as such).”

It’s been more than 10 years since Linda Babcock’s daughter was murdered, a decade’s worth of milestones and memories she says were stolen by the men who killed her child.

A panel of Ontario Appeal Court justices are scheduled this coming week to hear Millard’s and Smich’s appeals of their high-profile convictions for murdering Laura Babcock and Tim Bosma. Millard is also appealing his conviction of murdering his father, Wayne Millard, an aviation executive whose death was initially ruled a suicide.


Dellen Millard and his once-close friend Smich were handed life sentences and consecutive, rather than concurrent, 25-year periods of parole ineligibility for each first-degree murder conviction.

Smich was to be parole ineligible for 50 years, Millard for 75 years.

The Supreme Court then decided last year, in a case brought by Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette, that those types of stacked terms amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Millard and Smich now qualify for a shortened sentence of 25 years in prison with no parole.

With their appeals set to be heard over the course of five days, Babcock said she feels like all the horror of the past is being brought up again.

“It’s devastating for us,” she said. “Plus, once the 25 years are up, then we have to start going to parole hearings and giving a victim impact statement.”


A jury in June 2016 first found Millard and Smich guilty of murdering Bosma, a 32-year-old man whose body was burned in an incinerator after he took the two men out for a test drive of his pickup truck in May 2013.


The Crown argued the same incinerator was used to get rid of the body of 23-year-old Laura Babcock, theorizing Millard was motivated to kill his one-time lover to settle a love triangle with his then-current girlfriend.

Babcock vanished in July 2012. Her last eight phone calls were to Millard, and police tracked the movements of her phone to Millard’s home. Babcock’s phone stopped pinging cell towers shortly thereafter.

Her body has never been found.

Toronto Police also reopened an investigation into Wayne Millard’s death shortly after his son was charged with Bosma’s murder. Dellen Millard said he found his father dead in his home with a bullet through his eye. A jury convicted Millard of first-degree murder in his father’s death, and a judge handed him his third consecutive sentence.


He was to serve 75 years before being able to apply for parole, the longest consecutive sentence in Canada shared by only a handful of other convicted multiple murderers.


The calls for harsher sentences are an understandable response from victims’ families, says University of Ottawa professor Carissima Mathen, a criminal and constitutional law expert.

But decision makers, she says, should consider a legal system has to be at its strongest in the moments it’s pressured to enact the most punishing forms of justice. A cornerstone of that is the possibility people can change.

It also doesn’t take away from the reality a person serving a life sentence may never be released from prison, and even if they are, that release is limited, Mathen said. Parole is not guaranteed, and if granted comes with conditions.


A parole board will, for example, consider a person’s conduct in prison. Last week, Millard was found guilty of assault for his role in the alleged stabbing of another inmate in December 2021.

“Many people will serve the rest of their life in prison,” Mathen said.


Smich’s written arguments on appeal in the Babcock and Bosma cases frame him as the victim of two allegedly prejudicial trials that failed to distinguish what he argues was the weak evidence against him and the strong case against his co-accused. He asks the court to toss out his convictions and order new trials.

In the Babcock case, for example, he argues the evidence against him was based in large part on his actions after the offence, arguing the judge failed to properly instruct the jury about how to determine his level of liability on a charge of planned and deliberate murder. Part of his appeal in the Bosma case will call into question the admissibility of rap lyrics he had penned that were used against him as evidence at trial.


The Crown argues the judges properly and carefully instructed the jury in what were lengthy and complex cases, while fairly balancing the interests of Smich and Millard.



Millard’s appeal in the Babcock case, prepared by his lawyer, argues in part that the judge improperly denied him an adjournment to get a lawyer, undermining his right to a fair trial.

The Crown argues the judge was correct to deny the adjournment, pointing to a review that found Millard had been repeatedly helped by the court to get a lawyer, expressed desire to represent himself, had the money to get a lawyer, and still had enough time to get one after the adjournment was denied.

Millard is representing himself on the appeal of his convictions for murdering Bosma and his father. The court confirmed Friday it had not received written arguments for his Bosma and Millard appeals.
 

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Triple killer and wannabe lawyer Dellen Millard launches appeal
Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Published Mar 13, 2023 • Last updated 14 hours ago • 3 minute read

For most of the day, triple killer Dellen Millard remained silent from a video room at Millhaven Institution as he watched the real lawyer argue his first of three appeals before a panel of Ontario’s highest court.


Spread out on his prison table were piles of documents and, at his feet, a banker’s box filled with more.


He’s long waited for this week: the former aviation heir is appealing his three murder convictions — the slaying, along with his former best bud Mark Smich, of ex-girlfriend Laura Babcock in July 2012 and disposing of her body in an industrial animal incinerator he’d purchased; the pair’s thrill kill of stranger Tim Bosma during a test drive in May 2013; and his solo killing of his father Wayne Millard in November 2012.

Always fancying himself the smartest person in the room, how frustrating it must have been for him to stay quiet as his lawyer, Ravin Pillay, argued that his Babcock murder conviction should be overturned due to errors made by Superior Court Justice Michael Code.


But Millard will get his turn later this week to grandstand yet again when he argues his other two appeals himself.

Both killers are looking for new trials, but even if they’re unsuccessful, they’re already way ahead of where they started. Thanks to the controversial Supreme Court ruling last year that found stacking parole ineligibility periods for multiple murders was “cruel and unusual punishment,” they won’t have to argue their sentence appeals. While Millard was facing the longest known term in Ontario history — a life sentence with no possible parole for 75 years — and Smich was looking at 50 years, those will be reduced to the standard 25 years before they can apply for release.

Babcock, a troubled 23-year-old University of Toronto grad, was their first murder — but Smich is still claiming Millard acted alone.


They were “almost-like brothers,” said Smich’s appeal lawyer Richard Litkowski, but there was a “power imbalance” between the pair: Smich was a poor, wannabe rapper crashing at Millard’s Etobicoke home, while Millard was the rich playboy with multiple properties and expensive toys. Smich admittedly helped his friend clean up after Babcock’s murder — and even wrote a rap about watching her bones burn in The Eliminator — but he had nothing to do with the actual killing, the lawyer insisted.

“While he may have been an accessory after the fact to the killing,” Litkowski said, “what evidence was there of aiding Mr. Millard with the intent to aid him in committing a homicide? The vast majority of this evidence suggests Millard acted independently.”


Millard’s lawyer told the three judges that the aviation heir was unfairly self-represented during the 2017 Babcock trial and should have been granted the adjournment he’d requested to access his frozen funds and retain a lawyer who’d have time to prepare his case — but Code declared another delay would be “over my dead body.”

The panel seemed to quickly dismiss that ground of appeal, telling the Crown they didn’t even have to reply.

Pillay also argued the trial judge shouldn’t have allowed the jury to use Smich’s rap lyrics and video against Millard, and should have prevented his “hostile” uncle from testifying against him.

As the long day came to an end, with the Crown to continue their arguments Tuesday, Millard’s silence finally broke when he rose to address the panel. With Babcock’s poor parents having to hear him speak for the first time since he was put away five years ago, their daughter’s killer complained that he was having a tough time.




Millard’s legal arguments for later this week are all set on his computer, despite being past the submission deadline, but the prison didn’t have any procedure to transmit them, he said. He wanted the court to order the prison to help him.

“I respectfully submit that this shouldn’t be held against me,” he said in his best legalese. “Being incarcerated is a very difficult set of circumstances to deal with.”

The poor, arrogant serial killer.

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Crown agrees triple killer Dellen Millard can seek parole after 25 years
Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Published Mar 14, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
After Supreme Court ruled it "cruel and unusual punishment" last year, multiple killers no longer face longer parole ineligibility periods
It came, as expected, but still a sucker punch just the same.


At the end of her arguments against overturning the murder convictions of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich in the slaying of Laura Babcock, Crown attorney Katie Doherty told the Court of Appeal panel what their victims had long feared: Given last year’s Supreme Court landmark ruling, the prosecution agreed the men’s current sentences “cannot stand” and should be quashed.


No doubt for the sake of Babcocks’ stricken parents who sat in the courtroom, she made pains to emphasize that the multiple killers were sentenced to life in prison, and that doesn’t change.

But what does change now is monumental to those who continue to grieve Babcock, Tim Bosma and Millard’s father, Wayne. Their murderers can now apply for parole after 25 years and not have to wait the consecutive periods that had been imposed for each additional slaying: Millard to 75 years of parole ineligibility after killing three people and Smich to 50, for murdering two.


In custody since their arrests in May 2013, the pair now have 15 years to go before they can make their first attempt at release.

It means relatives must face these heartless murderers again, when they once thought they’d at least have the small comfort of never having to deal with their bids for parole. Sure, they’ve been assured these thrill killers will never see the light of day, but there are no guarantees. Memories fade; narcissistic manipulators like Millard can be remarkably clever at getting what they want.

Although it wasn’t going his way at Ontario’s highest court Tuesday.

Along with his former wannabe rapper best friend, Millard, representing himself, was convicted of killing Babcock in July 2012 and cremating his ex-girlfriend’s body in an incinerator he’d purchased to “barbecue” their victims and of murdering Bosma and incinerating his body in May 2013 after the Ancaster man took them on a test drive of their truck. The aviation heir alone was convicted of killing his wealthy dad and making it look like a suicide in November 2012.


For years, the Millard and Smich appeals have been in the works, with this week set aside for the Babcock convictions first, followed by Bosma and then Wayne Millard — all before the same three-judge panel.

At the 11th hour, Millard — who had lawyer Ravin Pillay only for the Babcock hearing — rose and asked the court for an adjournment so he can retain counsel. Ideally, he wanted to put off his Bosma appeal but even he knew it was too late since it’s to begin Wednesday. Instead, he asked that they postpone the Wayne Millard hearing from Friday to August.

“I don’t have the expertise. I’m not actually a lawyer,” he said via video from a room at the Millhaven Institution.

And in the next breath: “I respectfully submit that I believe it would be in the interests of justice to allow this adjournment.”


Well, here we go again.

Millard has tried delay after delay at every stage of his trials and now appeal process. Crown attorney Benita Wassenaar went over the long chronology with the court, of how he missed deadline after deadline to get himself a lawyer to the point that he was chastised in August 2021 by Justice David Watt who was case managing the appeals: “He appears to be of the unshakeable but mistaken belief that he is in charge of deciding when his appeals will be perfected, listed for hearing and heard. This is not how things work here. It is this court’s obligation to deliver timely justice.”

After just a few minutes of consultation, the panel returned and rejected Millard’s request.

“There’s been a lengthy delay already with frequent reminders for the need for you, Mr. Millard, to obtain counsel and deadlines have been set and extended frequently,” said an obviously not amused Justice Eileen Gillese. “There is no basis on which to adjourn this any further. The case will be heard on Friday.”

Millard begins representing himself Wednesday as the Bosma appeal begins.

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Dellen Millard wasn’t wearing lawyer robes, but the cocky serial killer did outfit himself all in black as he launched his appeal from prison against his conviction for the senseless killing of Ancaster father Tim Bosma.


By his take, he was the victim of unfair character assassination that cast him as “the perfect villian.” But he wasn’t the “mastermind” of this poorly conceived crime; he wasn’t a millionaire “madman” who would kill a stranger just for his used truck.


“I submit the verdict of first-degree murder was unreasonable,” he said.

On his feet for more than two hours on the video feed from Millhaven Institution, Millard read from his thick stack of submissions which boiled down to this: he was unfairly maligned as an elite, rich, evil sadist by the media, the Crown, and especially his co-accused, former best bud Mark Smich, who he insisted was the real killer.

When Bosma, 32, went missing on May 6, 2013, after going on a test drive with two men who said they wanted to buy his Dodge Ram truck, there was an outpouring of concern and media attention for the churchgoing father of a two-year-old daughter. His wife, Sharlene, captured hearts everywhere when she begged publicly for his return.


Those pleas went unanswered. A few days later, Bosma’s remains were found in an incinerator on Millard’s farm outside Waterloo.

At their sensational trial in Hamilton, Millard and Smich each pointed fingers at the other, but to no avail. Both were convicted of first-degree murder in 2016 — the first of Millard’s three murder convictions.

Using the legalese he’s picked up over a decade of proceedings — and unsuccessfully representing himself at his trial for killing ex-girlfriend Laura Babcock — Millard began by acknowledging, “this is the first time of course that I’ve conducted an appeal.”

He then jumped into a lengthy synopsis of the facts of the test drive, having the gall to say, “tragically, Mr. Bosma died that evening.”


But the victim he spoke most about was himself.

Millard complained his co-accused launched a blistering attack on him: “Counsel for Mr. Smich 14 times referred to me as ‘twisted,’ seven times as a ‘lunatic,’ six times as a ‘killer,’ three times as ‘demented,’ twice as a ‘madman’ and twice again as having a ‘criminal mind.'”

He was painted as a demon governed by pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. “This was the ultimate character attack; far from cut-throat, this was an all-out bloodbath, with virtually no means of constraining the attack,” he whined.

The Crown even dared to get emotional in their closing, Millard charged, telling the jury not to forget about Bosma and his wish to just get home to his wife and little girl.



“These final words — ‘Don’t forget about Tim’ — marked a decisive final blow to trial fairness and definitively sealed my fate.”

There was no plan to kill anyone that day, Millard maintained. “My defence was I was not the shooter and Smich accidentally shot Mr. Bosma,” he told the panel of three judges. “Smich brought his gun with him on the test drive and he alone hijacked what was supposed to be a scoping mission to fast track it for what he saw as a payment that would then be owed to him.”


After all, he was too smart for such a stupid crime.

Millard boasted about an October 2012 mission to successfully steal a $60,000 Bobcat machine. “I went to extremes to avoid detection, I engaged counter surveillance and an extensive plan. Why then on the day of the alleged planned murder would I be so sloppy and careless, why show my identity to witnesses and not delete content from my devices? Or turn off my own cellphone?”

He even brought his dog along.

“There was no motive to murder, and a motive to commit a homicide for a $24,000 used truck was absurd and defied logic.”

To correct the “miscarriage of justice” he’d suffered, the serial killer would like a new trial.

The Crown will respond Thursday.

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