“Destroy these letters.”But she didn’t.And mere days after police executed a search warrant at the Etobicoke home of Christina Noudga, retrieving 65 letters — from inside the night table drawer and on top of the bedroom desk — Dellen Millard was charged with murdering 23-year-old Laura Babcock.Letters from Dellen. Part billet-doux and part instruction, the correspondence — specifically, seven of the missives — was filed in court on Thursday, the concluding act of the prosecution evidence against Millard and co-defendant Mark Smich. At precisely 12:57 p.m., Jill Cameron closed the Crown case.“So far I’ve done what I can to separate you from this mess,” wrote Millard. “But it is a very real possibility that you will be called as a witness. Whatever you may believe, it needs to be put aside. This is what happened.“The night Laura disappeared, I came over to your place early in the morning. I did not text or call, it was a surprise.”Tapped on her window, he says, and took Noudga back to his Maple Gate Court residence.“I told you Laura was over, doing coke with Mark in the basement. We went to say goodnight. You saw her alive, with Mark, and there was coke on the bar. (Maybe they were getting ready to leave, to go somewhere else, to get more.) You and I don’t like coke. We went back to my room. We vaporized. We f---ed. We took a bath. We slept a little.“I drove you home, early in the morning. We did not go to see if they were still over. Later, when she was reported missing, you asked me if I knew anything. I told you that Mark had told me that she had OD’d. Probably from mixing her prescriptions with Mark’s coke.”Smich, Millard continued, couldn’t report the death to police because he might be charged with trafficking “or worse.” And Millard said he agreed to “stay quiet” in exchange for Smich’s promise that he would c ...
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