VANCOUVER — Day parole has been revoked for the woman who drowned Victoria teenager Reena Virk 28 years ago.
A Parole Board of Canada decision says Kerry Sim, known as Kelly Ellard when she was convicted, breached her conditions to abstain from drugs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 14, 2025.
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