The killer of Reena Virk has a conditional day release revoked on positive drug screening tests, “negative” behavior
The Canada’s Conditional Liberations Commission revoked the day’s parole for the woman who killed Reena Virk, a 14-year-old British Columbia teenager, following a series of screening and positive behavior tests that declared that the board of directors represents “an excessive risk for society”.
According to parole documents, Kerry Sim – who was known as Kelly Ellard in 1997 when she killed Virk – saw her limited release in the suspended community last January when she was tested positive for methamphetamine after months of “negative and non -compliant” behavior.
Although she denied having used drugs – blaming the prescribed drugs for what she claimed to be false positive – SIM was again tested positive for drugs not prescribed in prison in April and later admitted that she “had taken medication from another offender”.
In a decision rendered last month, the Canada’s conditional liberation committee told SIM “that you present a system of antisocial or delinquent values, that you have the reluctance to accept responsibility for your own actions and your rebellion puts you at a high risk for future behavior.”
“Your behavior in the community before your suspension is incompatible with what is minimally required or expected for a won release,” said the decision.
“You have ignored the minimum supervision expectations and when this has been discussed with you, you have become hostile, argumentative, antagonent, lacking responsibility and deflected blame.”
“Antagoniser, threaten and insult”
SIM is serving a perpetuity imprisonment for a second degree murder during the 1997 murder. The decision describes a 42 -year -old woman struggling with children, a single parenting, drug addiction – and the consequences of his actions.
The impact of Virk’s murder continues to have repercussions years after Sim and Warren Glowatski followed the teenager through the Craigflower bridge and trained him on the Victoria’s Gorge navigable channel after a rescue by a teenage swarm, Virk thought it was friends.
The case inspired books, plays, episodes of Podcast and a recent Hulu True-Crime television series-with Lily Gladstone, Oscar-Nominee, based on the 2005 non-fiction book, Under the bridge.
SIM – which had a troubled history before the Conditional Liberations Commission – has long contrasted from Glowatski, which was found guilty of second degree murder in 1999 but asked for virk parents, meeting them to express his remorse.
Sim was tried three times for murder before the Supreme Court of Canada, finally confirmed his conviction in 2009.
She was released during the conditional release of Day in 2018, but was transported several times to the parole card for domestic violence and positive urine tests. According to parole documents, SIM was arrested in 2021 due to deterioration of behavior.
She returned to a community residential establishment in the Lower Mainland in 2023, but was in and out of trouble. The staff described their behavior as “antagonent, threatening and insulting”.
“An undue risk for society”
According to the Council of Conditional Liberations, SIM was finally apprehended in the establishment after the positive screening test last January, but would not leave his room, making “waves suicidal comments” and “howling and kick” before she was placed in police custody.
SIM – who is the mother of two young children – “fought emotionally” because of her child’s behavior problems, as a single parent and “manage legal guard problems” with his ex -partner.
The new Hulu series under the bridge attracts renewed attention to the murder of Reena Virk, 14, in Victoria. Jason Proctor of CBC, which covered the history of murder when it happened in 1997, takes us through the last court documents and the reaction to the program of those involved.
The conditional liberation decision indicates that it also expressed security problems after the publication of the TV mini-series.
At the time of the series, the board of directors noted that SIM had “demonstrated remorse and empathy of the victims after a discussion on a next television series based on your crimes”.
“You said that the series was disrespectful towards the victim and his family, and that the index offense was so horrible that it would invite the family of the victim,” noted the Council in a previous decision.
The Conditional Liberations Commission noted that SIM has been working as a cleaner since his return to prison and “demonstrated positive behavior” but concluded that the risk of freeing it was too big.
“Despite the time you have had for self-reflection since your return to detention, the board of directors suits you to continue to adopt behaviors and to think that has contributed to your suspension,” concludes the decision.
“You can, by reciting before the expiration of your sentence, present an excessive risk for society.”
