The Canadian probation board has revoked the probation of the day for women who killed BC Teen Reena Virk, 14, after a series of positive drug tests and behaviors that the Board said they represent “an improper risk for society.”
According to probation documents, Kerry Sim, known as Kelly Ellard in 1997 when he killed Virk, saw for the first time his limited release in the suspended community last January when he tested positive for methamphetamine after months of “negative and confused” behavior.
Although he denied having used drugs, blaming the medications prescribed for what he said they were false positives, Sim again gave positive for medications not prescribed in prison in April and then admitted that “he had taken the medication of another offender.”
In a decision issued last month, the Canada’s probation board told SIM “that it presents a system of antisocial or criminal values, which has the lack of will to accept the responsibility of its own actions and that its rebellion puts it at high risk of a future criminal behavior.”
“Its behavior in the community before its suspension is inconsistent with what is required or expected minimally in a release won,” says the decision.
“It does not take into account the minimum supervision expectations and when this was addressed with you, it became hostile, argumentative, antagonizing, lacked responsibility and deviant guilt.”
‘Antagonizing, threatening and insulting’
SIM is fulfilling life imprisonment for second degree murder in the murder of 1997. The decision describes a 42 -year -old girl who fights with children, a single parenting, substance abuse and the consequences of their actions.
The impact of Virk’s murder continues to reverberate years after Sim and Warren Glowatski followed the teenager through the Craigflower bridge and dragged her to the Victoria Gorge river route after a wild beating for a swarm of teenagers that Virk thought they were friends.
The case has inspired books, plays, episodes of podcasts and a recent television series by Hulu Triome Crime, starring the payroll of Oscar Lily Gladstone, based on the 2005 non -fiction book of the same name, Under the bridge.
Sim, who has had a problematic story before the Board of Probation, has been in marked contrast with Glowatski, who was convicted of second degree murder in 1999, but sought the forgiveness of Virk’s parents, meeting with them to express their remorse.
Sim was trial three times for the murder before the Supreme Court of Canada finally confirmed his conviction in 2009.
It was released in the probation of the day in 2018, but has been dragged again in front of the probation board several times for domestic violence and positive urine tests. According to probation documents, SIM was arrested in 2021 due to a deterioration in behavior.
He returned to a community residential center in the low continent in 2023, but was inside and out of problems. The staff described their behavior as “antagonizing, threatening and insulting.”
‘An improper risk for society’
According to the probation Board, SIM was arrested at the installation after the positive drug test last January, but did not leave his room, making “vague suicidal comments” and “screaming and kicking” before being arrested.
Sim, who is the father of a child, has “struggled emotionally” due to the behavior problems of his son, being a single father and “managing the problems of legal custody” with his former partner.
The new Hulu series under the bridge is calling the renewed attention of the murder of Reena Virk, 14, in Victoria. Jason Proctor de CBC, who covered the history of murder when it happened in 1997, takes us through the latest judicial documents and the reaction to the program of those involved.
The probation decision says that he also expressed security concerns after the launch of the television miniseries.
At the time of launching the series, the Board said that SIM had “demonstrated a remorse empathy and victim after an argument about a next television series based on their crimes.”
“You said that the series is disrespectful with the victim and his family, and that the crime index was so horrible that he would vary again to the victim’s family,” the board said in a previous decision.
The probation Board said that SIM has been working as a cleaner since he returned to jail and has “demonstrated positive behavior”, but concluded that the risk of releasing it was too large.
“Despite the time he has had for self -reflection since he returned to custody, the Board finds that he continues to participate in behaviors and thinking that they contributed to his suspension,” concludes the decision.
“By recovering before the expiration of your prayer, it will present an improper risk for society.”
