Bulletin: Tim Bosma trial; Hamilton Ontario: When you thought you heard it all! CBC News reports that a trailer containing crucial prosecution evidence - Tim Bosma's truck, key evidence in the murder trial of the two men accused of killing him - was left unsecured during transport to an Ontario Provincial Police forensic facility, "allowing a (cardboard) box to fly out the rear doors onto the highway, where it was run over by an unmarked police car."..."Millard's lawyer, Ravin Pillay, seized the opportunity in court Wednesday to point out that Troubridge couldn't say if anything else had fallen out of the trailer or been disturbed once she wasn't travelling behind it. "You don't know if anything else came out, because you weren't watching it, correct?" he asked. Troubridge said she believed the box was the only thing that fell out....She went back to the same area of the highway that night to look for the box and believes that she found it. "You don't know if it's the same box," Pillay said during cross-examination. "I know it's the same box, I saw it come out of the trailer," she said. But it had also been driven over by several cars, she said. A second box was also recovered by police, but Troubridge said it didn't come from the truck. Bosma's truck was found inside a trailer at the home of Dellen Millard's mother, police officers testified. .. After the tow truck driver pulled over, he secured the trailer doors with a piece of wire he had in his truck, Troubridge testified. Pillay also questioned that decision in cross-examination. "You didn't secure the trailer at that moment with another lock?" Pillay asked. "I didn't have one," she answered."

"A trailer containing Tim Bosma's truck, key evidence in the murder trial of the two men accused of killing him, was left unsecured during transport to an Ontario Provincial Police facility, court heard Wednesday — allowing a box to fly out the rear doors onto the highway, where it was run over by an unmarked police car. The trailer with the Ancaster, Ont., man's truck inside was being transported from a secure facility in Hamilton to an OPP forensics facility in Tillsonburg, Ont., for examination on May 14, 2013. Det. Const. Lauren Troubridge was tasked with following the trailer as it was towed. On Highway 403, at the Golf Links Road overpass, the rear doors of the trailer flew open while travelling around 110 km/h, Troubridge testified in court Wednesday. This was around 6:30 p.m. "It was very heavy traffic at that time," she said, adding that a cardboard box fell out of the trailer and she ran over it with her car. "The lock wasn't actually securing the doors closed," she said, elaborating that the bar across the back of the trailer didn't secure the doors properly. Const. Brent Gibson testified that on May 12, 2013, he locked the trailer with his own lock. During cross-examination, Troubridge agreed that the doors "apparently" weren't secured as they should have been. Troubridge said that once she saw the doors fly open, she honked her horn — but the tow truck driver didn't notice. She changed lanes, sped up next to the driver and got his attention to pull over. Dellen Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of the 32-year-old father from Ancaster, Ont., whose body was found burned beyond recognition. Millard's lawyer, Ravin Pillay, seized the opportunity in court Wednesday to point out that Troubridge couldn't say if anything else had fallen out of the trailer or been disturbed once she wasn't travelling behind it. "You don't know if anything else came out, because you weren't watching it, correct?" he asked. Troubridge said she believed the box was the only thing that fell out.Doors secured with wire, not another lock. She went back to the same area of the highway that night to look for the box and believes that she found it. "You don't know if it's the same box," Pillay said during cross-examination. "I know it's the same box, I saw it come out of the trailer," she said. But it had also been driven over by several cars, she said. A second box was also recovered by police, but Troubridge said it didn't come from the truck.   After the tow truck driver pulled over, he secured the trailer doors with a piece of wire he had in his truck, Troubridge testified. Pillay also questioned that decision in cross-examination. "You didn't secure the trailer at that moment with another lock?" Pillay asked. "I didn't have one," she answered. Pillay also asked if she could have called for backup from the side of the road and used another lock. "I guess I could have done a few things, but I secured it with a wire. That's all we had," she said."http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/tim-bosma-trial-trailer-with-truck-left-unsecured-during-police-transport-1.3441914