School bully murderess who helped beat and drown classmate is ordered back to jail

A notorious Canadian slayer was arrested connected Tuesday aft violating the conditions of her release. 

Kelly Ellard, who changed her sanction to Kerry Sim, was convicted successful April 2005 for the brutal 1997 execution of classmate Reena Virk, 14, successful Saanich, British Columbia. 

Sim was serving a beingness condemnation for the execution but was granted time parole successful 2018 nether conditions that she would stay sober, not interaction the Virk family, travel a attraction plan, and study each intimate relationships. 

A spokesperson for the Surrey Police Services confirmed Sim's apprehension to DailyMail.com. The Corrections Service of Canada, which issued the warrant, did not supply specifics connected which conditions she violated. 

Sim was arrested again successful 2021 and was ordered doubly to be a proceeding for her behaviour aft investigating affirmative for codeine and for domestic violence. She had been surviving successful a community-based residential installation aft her release. 

While successful prison, Sim had 2 children. Her archetypal kid was conceived during a conjugal sojourn with her boyfriend, who was besides an ex-convict. 

She had a 2nd kid with the aforesaid idiosyncratic and was a parent of 2 by 2020. 

Sim was thrust into the nationalist oculus for her engagement successful the brutal sidesplitting of Virk after luring her to a party. 

Virk was a unfortunate of bullying astatine her predominately achromatic school, wherever she felt similar an outsider and struggled successful her location life. 

Her parents, who had converted to Jehovah's Witnesses, kept Virk nether strict spiritual rules.

She had antecedently tally distant and was placed successful the attraction of her grandparents earlier being moved to a foster home. 

Her beingness came to a tragic extremity connected November 14, 1997, erstwhile a radical of classmates invited her to a party. 

Unbeknownst to her, the radical was readying to onslaught Virk. She arrived astatine the gathering and recovered her 8 classmates drinking and smoking. 

The teens violently accused Virk of spreading rumors astir them earlier assaulting her.

The six girls convicted of assaulting Virk were known arsenic the 'Shoreline Six.' Sim and the 1 lad astatine the party, Warren Glowatski, were aboriginal convicted of murder.  

Virk was yet capable to escape, but Glowatski and Sim followed her and dragged her nether a bridge. 

They continued to bushed her until she was unconscious and drowned her assemblage successful the water. Glowatski aboriginal said that Sim held Virk's caput underwater, but she denied that claim. 

Virk's parents reported her missing, but due to the fact that of her past of moving away, constabulary didn't find her assemblage until 8 days aft the attack. 

A coroner's study aboriginal revealed the extended injuries she endured, mirroring those of car clang victims. 

Speculation implicit who killed Virk began to turn successful Saanich erstwhile when different students overheard those progressive talking astir the murder. 

Police yet arrested Glowatski and Sim, who were 16 and 15 astatine the time. Due to the vicious grade of their crimes, the 2 teens were tried arsenic adults. 

Glowatski was recovered blameworthy of second-degree execution and sentenced to beingness successful prison. He completed a restorative justness programme successful situation and sought forgiveness from the Virk family.

Virk's mother, Suman, who died successful 2018, antecedently explained to The Globe and Mail wherefore she forgave Glowatski. 

'I deliberation the astir important crushed wherefore we've forgiven Warren is truthful we tin conscionable enactment this full substance speech and for our ain healing and consciousness of wholeness,' she said.

Sim, connected the different hand, didn't question reconciliation for her crimes. Her condemnation wasn't arsenic straightforward arsenic she went done aggregate trials. 

Her archetypal condemnation successful March 2000 was overturned aft the defence argued she didn't person a just trial. She awaited a 2nd proceedings successful situation until she appeared successful tribunal again successful June 2004. 

Sim said that she wasn't the 1 who killed Virk, resulting successful a deadlocked assemblage and a mistrial. Her 3rd condemnation a twelvemonth aboriginal was overturned connected appeal.

The lawsuit made it to Canada's Supreme Court, wherever Sim's condemnation and beingness condemnation were reinstated. 

The justice astatine her 2005 proceedings was convinced that Sim wouldn't rehabilitate, telling her, 'You unsocial are liable for your situation, and until you scope this simple decision you volition not grow.

'You volition not rehabilitate; you volition beryllium everlastingly stalled successful this nightmare which you person created.'

The different six girls progressive successful the onslaught were convicted successful juvenile tribunal for battle and served sentences of nether a year. 

Virk's parents remained outspoken astir their daughter's decease successful the years that followed and became advocates for victims of bullying. 

Virk's father, Manjit, penned a caller astir his girl titled, Reena: A Father's Story. 

Virk's communicative has been sensationalized and became the inspiration for respective books, movies, and documentaries. 

The astir caller retelling was detailed successful the fashionable Hulu bid Under the Bridge, starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone. 

Keough portrayed Rebecca Godfrey, a writer who wrote a publication nether the aforesaid sanction astir the horrific incident, portion Gladstone played a bull investigating the crime.

Godfrey was surviving successful New York astatine the clip but became enthralled by the lawsuit from her hometown successful Canada. She spent astir a decennary researching the lawsuit for her book. 

Since the Hulu bid was released past year, there's been a renewed involvement successful the tragic events that occurred successful November 1997.