A Toronto man who sold guns to Dellen Millard — who used one to kill Tim Bosma, and allegedly used another to shoot his father in the head — should be sentenced to 13 years in prison, prosecutors are arguing.

Last June, Matthew Ward-Jackson, 30, pleaded guilty to trafficking three separate firearms to Millard in 2012 and possessing a machine gun.

Unlike most gun trafficking cases, the court knows how at least two of the firearms were used, Crown attorney Ken Lockhart said Thursday at Ward-Jackson’s sentencing hearing.

“There’s no speculation or mystery about the danger here. Two of these firearms were used to cause death,” including the “planned and deliberate execution of a complete stranger,” Lockhart said referring to Bosma, a 32-year-old Ancaster, Ont. man.

The Crown acknowledged that most gun traffickers get less than 13 years, but said the circumstances of the case warranted a longer sentence.

Millard and his former friend Mark Smich were convicted last year of shooting Bosma in his truck in 2013, 15 months after Millard bought the Walther PPK handgun from Ward-Jackson. A week ago, the pair was again convicted of first-degree murder, this time of Torontonian Laura Babcock, 23.

Next spring, Millard is facing a first-degree murder trial in the death of his father, Wayne Millard. Wayne Millard was found dead in his bed on Nov. 29, 2012 with a single gunshot wound to his left eye. Next to him, police found a .32 calibre Smith & Wesson revolver. His death was originally ruled a suicide until the investigation was reopened and Millard charged.

Ward-Jackson admitted selling that revolver to Millard.

Lockhart urged Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly to pay “close attention” to the text exchange between Millard and Ward-Jackson.

On Feb. 11, 2012, a day after the purchase, Millard sent Ward-Jackson a text: “By the time I let her (the gun) go, she’ll be a dirty girl.” Lockhart translated: it will be stained with a crime.

“That’s fine, LOL,” Ward-Jackson texted back.

“That speaks to Mr. Ward-Jackson’s moral culpability to the situation,” Lockhart said.

But defence lawyer Kim Schofield, who is asking for a seven-and-a-half year sentence, said there isn’t a “scintilla of evidence” that her client knew how the weapons would be used.

Schofield asked Kelly to consider only the crimes Ward-Jackson admitted to, not the “horrific acts that happened as a result of what he did, which was provide a firearm.”

That’s something that, “obviously he has to live with, and it’s something that haunted him,” she said. “It would be an error in law to sentence him for the consequence.”

She acknowledged while his text was “troubling . . . it does not mean murder weapon. It means potentially used, that’s all.”

Schofield also filed a sworn affidavit from Ward-Jackson, containing a litany of physical and mental health related complaints relating to his four years in custody.

Ward-Jackson described conditions inside the lockdown-plagued Toronto South Detention Centre as “torture,” but said he has been a model prisoner with no misconduct. He is seeking enhanced credit for pretrial custody.

Prosecutor Steve Byrne grilled Ward-Jackson about his affidavit, suggesting he was exaggerating the hardship.

“This delicate flower . . . this gentle, retiring personality he’s trying to present himself as is a con,” Byrne told Kelly during his submissions.

“He simply wants to get the benefit of a lower sentence.”

At the end of the proceeding, Ward-Jackson, 30, whose scalp, cheek and arms are covered in tattoos, apologized to the public.

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“I can never withdraw the pain and the suffering that my actions have caused people,” he said, leaning into the microphone, his hands clutching the edge of the prisoner’s box.

“I know what I need to do when I get out to take control of my life and make sure things like this don’t ever happen again. I would like to make my city proud . . . and not embarrassed.”

Kelly said she would sentence Ward-Jackson on Jan. 12.

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