HAMILTON—Christina Noudga pled guilty on Tuesday to obstructing justice by willfully destroying evidence in the murder of Tim Bosma.

The former girlfriend of one of two men convicted in the murder had been in talks for a plea deal.

The trial had been set to begin Tuesday for Noudga, 24, who was charged with being an accessory after the fact.

Noudga was sentenced to one day in jail, with credit for time served before trial.

Noudga had been in jail for four months after being charged, then served roughly two years of house arrest after being granted bail.

“You learn in life, that when you keep company with bad people, and these people were beyond that, they were evil, bad things happen,” Justice Toni Skarica told Noudga.

Asked before sentencing if there was anything she would like to say, Noudga replied simply, “No thank you, your honour.”

A member of the Bosma family confirmed that they had been consulted by the Crown about a potential resolution.

Bosma, 32, was killed in 2013 after he took Dellen Millard and Mark Smich out for a test drive of a pickup truck he was trying to sell.

Millard, 31, and Smich, 28, were convicted of first-degree murder in June and sentenced to life in prison. Both are appealing the verdict.

Noudga testified at Millard’s trial this spring, but none of what she said there can be used against her in her own trial due to protections under the Canada Evidence Act.

Noudga, a university graduate and medical school hopeful, moved to Canada from Ukraine with her family when she was a toddler. The family lives in a bungalow in Etobicoke.

She spent four months in jail following her April 2014 arrest, before being granted bail.

Noudga had been dating Millard for about three years when he picked her up late on May 9, 2013.

He’d texted her earlier that day, looking for her help on a “tiny mission.”

“Sure,” she’d texted back. She told him to come at 8:30 p.m. but it was closer to 10 p.m. by the time he arrived. He pulled up in front of her parents’ Etobicoke bungalow in his red pickup truck, towing a massive black car trailer behind him.

When she hopped into the truck next to him, he handed her a DVR (digital video recorder) and asked her to hang onto it. She testified at his trial that she thought it was some sort of speaker, and ran back inside to put it in the back of her closet.

Back in the truck, they headed to his mother Madeleine Burns’s house in Kleinburg, where they dropped the trailer off in her driveway.

From there, they made three more stops:

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First, at Millard’s air hangar at the Region of Waterloo airport, where they swapped the red pickup truck for his dark blue GMC Yukon.

Then, at Millard’s North Dumfries-area farm, where — in the pitch dark, wearing black nitrile gloves — the pair hauled a massive 10-foot tall animal cremator out of an abandoned barn and into the woods.

And finally, at Millard’s friend Matt Hagerman’s house, where Millard handed off a locked black and yellow tool box to his friend in the driveway around 4 a.m.

Noudga insisted on the stand at Millard’s trial that she didn’t ask a single question of Millard as they drove that night. She “wasn’t curious” about what they were up to — or the seemingly strange mission they were on — she said. She was too busy smoking weed and performing “sexual favours” on her boyfriend to chat, she testified with a smile to a visibly shocked courtroom.

She testified that when Millard was arrested the next day, she went back to Burns’s house, where the trailer was still sitting in the driveway. The two women went to a hotel, where they drank “copious amounts of wine” and fretted over Millard’s arrest.

It was there — in the early hours of May 11, now — that they “theorized” that Bosma’s truck could possibly be inside the trailer back in Burns’s driveway. Concerned that they had touched it during the previous night’s drop-off, she explained, they drove back and wiped off their fingerprints.

They weren’t tampering with evidence, she insisted — they just wanted to “remove (their) involvement.”

Five days later, Millard’s charges were upgraded to first-degree murder. On May 22, Smich was also charged in Bosma’s death. It was close to a year before Noudga was arrested.

When police searched her house following her arrest in April 2014, they found the DVR still sitting in her messy bedroom closet.

In her bedside table, they discovered a series of secret jailhouse letters sent to her by Millard. In them, he pleaded with her to be his “secret agent” and reach out to friends to get them to change their stories to police.

Millard repeatedly ordered his “princess” to destroy the letters. But she hung onto them because she said they were “sentimental.”

She “contemplated” helping him, she admitted, but said she weighed the pros and cons and decided against it.

In another note, she references “immunity” and making a statement to police.

She never did that either.

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