By Canadian Press

Former CFL wide receiver to be sentenced in B.C. today for 2009 murder

May 24, 2022 | 1:10 AM

VANCOUVER — Former Canadian Football League wide receiver Joshua Boden is scheduled to be sentenced today for the murder of a woman in 2009. 

Boden was found guilty of second-degree murder in B.C. Supreme Court last fall for the killing of Kimberly Hallgarth. 

The body of the 33-year-old woman was found in May 2009 at her home in Burnaby, B.C., and police said she had “suspicious injuries.”

Charges were not laid until November 2018, and a statement at the time from Hallgarth’s family said they waited nearly a decade for the development. 

They described the woman as a bubbly and caring person who deeply loved being a mother to her daughter.

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Boden, who’s now 35 years old, played for the B.C. Lions in 2007 but was released by the team in 2008 and signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, although he never played a regular-season game with them before he was cut.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 24, 2022.

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