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Tempest in a box
British Columbia, Canada, 1997:
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The Wikipedia article:

Reena came from a large extended family who had emigrated from India. An article described her immediate family as "a minority within a minority," as they were of the Jehovah's Witness religion in the local South Asian community of 3,000 which was predominantly Sikh. Virk has been described as a girl who was desperate for acceptance amongst her peers, but was taunted and/or ostracized by these girls whose subculture was influenced by Los Angeles street gangs.

On the evening of Friday November 14, 1997, Reena Virk was invited to a "party" by her friend near the Craigflower Bridge, in a municipality in the city of Victoria, British Columbia.

While at the bridge, it is claimed that teenagers drank alcohol and smoked marijuana. Virk was subsequently swarmed by a group later called the Shoreline Six. Witnesses said that one of the girls stubbed out a cigarette on Virk's forehead, and that while seven or eight others stood by and watched, Virk was repeatedly hit, punched and kicked. She was found to have several cigarette burns on her skin, and apparently attempts were made to set her hair on fire. This first beating ended when one of the girls told the others to stop.

Virk managed to walk away, but was followed by two members of the original group, Ellard and Glowatski. The pair dragged Virk to the other side of the bridge, made her remove her shoes and jacket, and beat her a second time. Ellard held her head under water.

Despite an alleged pact amongst the people involved to not "rat each other out", by the following Monday rumours of the alleged murder spread throughout Shoreline Secondary School. Reena Virk was a student at nearby Colquitz Junior High School. Several uninvolved students and teachers heard the rumours, but no one came forward to report it to the police. The rumours were confirmed eight days later, on November 22, 1997, when police using a helicopter found Virk's partially clothed body washed ashore at the Gorge Inlet, a major waterway on Vancouver Island.

The coroner ruled the death was by drowning. However, an autopsy later revealed that Virk had sustained significant injury, and that the head injuries were severe enough to have killed her if she had not been drowned. Virk was 14 years old.


This week, Kelly Ellard applied for parole, 19 years after Reena's brutal murder. Brought back a few memories, Reena spent a few months of 1996 at my junior high school before transferring to Shoreline, where the "Shoreline Six" took her out.

VANCOUVER — Almost two decades since an ostracized 14-year-old was swarmed, viciously beaten and then callously drowned near a Victoria bridge, Reena Virk’s most notorious killer is asking for release.
Kelly Ellard was 15 years old in November 1997 when she smashed Virk’s head against a tree and then held the Grade 9 student’s head underwater until she stopped moving.
Ellard is scheduled to attend her first day-parole hearing on Tuesday, seven years after the Supreme Court of Canada rejected an appeal of her second-degree murder conviction.
She has waived her right to a full parole hearing four times while serving her life sentence, but has remained eligible for day parole and applied for release several months ago.
Ahead of the hearing, Virk’s grandfather said the family no longer believes Ellard can redeem herself.
“If she had admitted (her role) and if she had told the truth, then it would have been much better for our conscience, our pain, our satisfaction,” said Mukand Pallan, 86, from his home in Victoria.
“The way she behaved, we’re very, very mad about it. It doesn’t seem right, she’s not a good girl, she doesn’t deserve any help.”
Members of the Virk family showed compassion for many years towards Ellard, three others girls convicted of assault and Warren Glowatski, who was also found guilty of second-degree murder in the teen’s death.
The attack focused a national spotlight on bullying and teen violence, particularly among girls.
The murder happened late in the evening after Virk joined a group of teens gathered outside a local school to drink and smoke pot. She was assaulted until bloody by several teens and then crossed a bridge, pleading to be left alone. Successive trials heard that Ellard and Glowatski followed.
During Ellard’s third trial, a pathologist testified Virk’s brain was swollen and she suffered at least 18 forceful blows to her body. She died from drowning and her body was found adrift in a local inlet.

Ellard was put on trial for murder as an adult. A jury found her guilty during the first trial in 2000, but the verdict was overturned and a new trial ordered when the B.C. Court of Appeal determined the Crown had conducted cross-examination improperly.
She testified during her second trial in 2004, sobbing and insisting she “never crossed the bridge.” The jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Ellard didn’t testify during her third trial in 2005. She was convicted and then won an appeal, but Canada’s highest court rejected the case and restored the conviction.
She has run into other trouble since Virk’s death.
Ellard’s bail was revoked in 2004 while she was living in a halfway house awaiting trial. She was charged with assault causing bodily harm of an older woman in a New Westminster park. The charges were stayed after she was found guilty in the Virk trial.
Court documents in 2005 said Ellard was a belligerent and often abusive inmate, who had violent outbursts that included throwing food and kicking chairs.
She was portrayed as having a fragile mental state as a result of her prison time during her sentencing hearing.
At the time, her mother Susan Pakos told the judge her daughter “has suffered more publicly and privately than anyone can ever imagine.”
Her lawyer Peter Wilson described her as “a person everyone loves to hate.”
Should Ellard’s request for parole be granted, she would be placed under a release plan that includes a requirement she live in a halfway house, a parole official said.
A release plan usually includes a series of conditions attached to the parole board’s risk assessment, such as abstaining from intoxicants and avoiding criminally active peers.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...s-after-she-drowned-a-14-year-old-in-victoria
 
that is one vicious girl, she probably can not be really rehabilitated, she'll act out again if someone pisses her off.
 
@Buffettgirl - She was in my homeroom for maybe two months, blended in like any awkward 13/14 year old would - at that age you're not thinking about other people's feelings because you're a goddamn ocean of them yourself. I'll be honest and say I noticed her existence but nothing more. It shocked the whole city and she got a big page in the yearbook - I'd have to dig in storage to find it.. (not worth it right now!)

The craigflower/shoreline area is bordering a large first nations reserve and a relatively skeevy part of town called Esquimalt, the only place you'd find "gangs" of anything/anyone in Victoria at the time. (I lived in the equivalent of the sticks, that year I believe marked the introduction of 5 day a week transit service to the municipality.. I wasn't licensed so this was a big deal for me at 14/15) I never ventured into that area confidently till I was about 17, at that point "DGAF" about Kelly Ellard since she was locked up. I daresay her accommodations were cozy. And cushy. There just isn't any rehabilitating this menace.
 
She doesn't deserve parole. She will either maim or kill someone else. Come on she killed a a young girl...beat an old lady up and who knows what other crimes until she was caught. Her prison behavior suggests she cannot be rehabilitated.
 
http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/s...ena-virk-s-killer-denied-day-parole-1.2885914

DENIED.

A B.C. woman who assaulted and drowned 14-year-old Reena Virk near a Victoria bridge in 1997 has been denied parole.
But for the first time since the murder, Kelly Ellard accepted some responsibility for Virk's death in Tuesday's hearing.
Ellard, now 33, was seeking day parole after she was convicted of second-degree murder in the incident, which made national headlines and put a spotlight on teen bullying.
She was 15 years old when she and a group of teens swarmed and attacked Virk under Victoria's Craigflower Bridge.
Virk staggered to a nearby shore, but she was followed by 16-year-old Warren Glowatski and Ellard, who knocked her unconscious against a tree before holding her head underwater, drowning her.
In the hearing Tuesday, Ellard admitted she pushed the girl into water while she was unconscious, but did not confess to holding her head underwater.
"She would be alive if I hadn't been there," Ellard admitted to the parole board.
She had previously denied her involvement with the drowning despite being convicted in 2009.
Reasons for the parole denial included Ellard using crystal meth in prison, not accepting enough responsibility for Virk's murder and associating with bad influences.

The board also concluded she could not be managed safely in the community yet.
In her final comments to the board, Ellard expressed a desire to move on with her life using the phrase “enough is enough.”
The parole board interpreted that as her showing a sense of entitlement, and I guess they felt perhaps that a humbler attitude was more appropriate given the circumstances,” said parole board spokesman Patrick Storey.
He said that while Ellard has made some “positive changes in her life and in her behaviour,” it wasn’t enough.

It was their impression that she still seems to be minimizing certain aspects of the offence, and many of the changes she has made so far are recent,” Storey said.
The board said while she’s accepting more responsibility in Virk’s death, Ellard is still not admitting to what she was convicted of.
She’ll now return to her life sentence in prison and can apply for day parole again in a year.
But Storey said she could apply for a lesser form of release prior to that, including unescorted temporary absences.

Ellard was found guilty in her third trial for Virk's second-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison, after two previous trials resulted in a successful appeal, then a hung jury.
Three other girls were convicted of assault in the case and Glowatski was found guilty of second-degree murder.
 
Absolutely nutty that canada allows violent criminals to have day passes and unescorted vacations from prison. Fucking madness.

At the time, her mother Susan Pakos told the judge her daughter “has suffered more publicly and privately than anyone can ever imagine.”

Pretty obvious how this shithead ended up being such a worthless, vile monster. The mom needs to be locked up too.

What punishment did the dude receive? He still lokced up?
 
What punishment did the dude receive? He still lokced up?

He was granted "day parole" in 2007, with the support of the victim's parents, and then full parole in 2010.

I didn't see any reference to the parents in regards to the full parole, but they likely supported it. They had visited him in prison several times before the first partial parole, and truly it seemed like they just wanted an admittance of wrongdoing and contrition, which Ellard has long refused to give. Her grudging admittance of some responsibility at her last hearing is as far as she's gone.

Re the first parole: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...er-granted-day-parole-in-virk-murder-1.637671
 
http://www.theprovince.com/news/cri...+life+sentence+murder/12310293/story.htmlhtml

She is one of B.C.’s best-known killers – found guilty of brutally beating and drowning a teenage girl under a Victoria bridge in 1997.

Now Kelly Marie Ellard is about to become a mother.

Despite serving a life sentence in prison for killing 14-year-old Reena Virk, Ellard is now about eight months pregnant, the Vancouver Sun has learned.

The father is a man with gang links who was out on day parole when he was allowed the intimate visits with Ellard in the spring.

Lovely. More at the link in regards to all the creature comforts she'll have as a guest of the Canadian judicial system. *grimace*
 
The fact that she got with a gangmember shows she has made absolutely ZERO progress at rehabilitation.
 
I remember reading about this when it happened, I know there were more details about it than what's here, but I don't recall specifics, just that it was heart-wrenching.

She was portrayed as having a fragile mental state as a result of her prison time during her sentencing hearing.
At the time, her mother Susan Pakos told the judge her daughter “has suffered more publicly and privately than anyone can ever imagine.”

Well she fucking murdered another girl, so she SHOULD have a fragile mental state. She had one going in after all. (Assuming by "fragile mental state" we mean raging self-absorbed sociopathic cuntdom.)

Maybe next time you decide to declare that your daughter has suffered more than anyone can ever imagine you pause for a moment and seriously consider what sort of trauma Reena Virk suffered through. And what sort of trauma all those who loved her STILL suffer, and then keep your fucking mouth shut because there are no fucks to be had for your daughter who still lives, gets to have a family and can still tell you she loves you; and all this DESPITE continuing to be a really shitty human being.
 
Kelly Ellard, the woman convicted of killing Reena Virk, has had a second child, according to a decision released Thursday by the Parole Board of Canada that extends her day parole for six months.

Despite noting concern for the level of violence Ellard used to commit the murder of Virk in 1997, the board says it has seen her change throughout the completion of numerous programs, interventions and counselling.

Ellard, who now goes by the name Kerry Sim, was first granted day parole in November 2017.
"The Board has determined that because you have demonstrated and sustained significant positive change ... it has sufficient reliable and persuasive information to determine that a [day parole] continued would not constitute an undue risk to society and will continue to facilitate your reintegration into the community," the decision said.
Ellard gave birth to her first child after getting pregnant while in prison, but the parole board's most recent decision says she gave birth to a second child while on day parole.

The board wrote that Ellard continues to mature and demonstrate stability and progress.

"This report referenced some of the challenges you were then experiencing as a single parent but indicated that, overall, parenthood had a positive impact on you," it said.

The report says Ellard's partner — and the father of both her children — is now employed in the community and supporting the family, after serving his own federal sentence.
On Nov. 14, 1997, Virk was swarmed and beaten under a bridge in Saanich, B.C., by a group of teenagers, mainly girls. Ellard returned with an accomplice after the beating, dragged Virk to the Gorge waterway, and held her underwater until she stopped moving.
 
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