Kelly Ellard, who killed B.C. teen Reena Virk in 1997, has parole revoked over drug use

National Post

15 hours ago

VANCOUVER — Day parole has been revoked for the woman who drowned Victoria teenager Reena Virk 28 years ago.
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A Parole Board of Canada decision says Kerry Sim, known as Kelly Ellard when she was convicted, breached her conditions to abstain from drugs.
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The decision says Sim at first adamantly rejected the test result for methamphetamine, and instead argued it was a false positive from her own medication.
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The board says that Sim, at 42 years old, still has an anti-social and delinquent value system and is unwilling to accept responsibility for her own actions, putting her at high risk for future delinquent behaviour.
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She is a single parent of two children and the decision says she has struggled emotionally due to one child's behavioural issues and she also voiced safety concerns after a TV miniseries documented Virk's murder.
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Fourteen-year-old Virk had already been badly beaten by a group of teenagers under the Craigflower Bridge before Sim, then 15, drowned her in the nearby Gorge waterway.
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The swarming attack on Virk and subsequent trials and appeals gained international attention, with the judge saying that Virk was the defenceless victim of a prolonged and brutal attack in which Sim played a central role.
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