Ontario’s top court upholds convictions of Millard, Smich in murder of Hamilton’s Tim Bosma

Murderers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich have had their convictions upheld by Ontario's top court for the high-profile killing of Hamilton's Tim Bosma.

It's the second of three murder convictions to be upheld against Millard, after the court also dismissed the appeal of his conviction for killing his father.

But the three-justice panel agreed the trial judge properly addressed the relevant issues, and dismissed the appeals from both co-accused.

The trial saw prosecutors argue Millard and Smich jointly set out to murder Bosma — a 32-year-old Hamilton father who was a stranger to them — and steal his truck on May 6, 2013, bringing evidence to suggest the men then stripped the truck, hid the murder weapon and burned Bosma's body.

The court is set to release its decision tomorrow on Smich's and Millard's appeals for the murder of Laura Babcock, the 23-year-old who prosecutors theorized was killed by the two men to settle a love triangle between her, Millard and his then-girlfriend.