The Murder of Reena Virk

In 1997, a 14 year old girl is invited by a group of peers she thinks are her friends to meet under a bridge in Victoria, British Columbia. What happened next was unthinkable. The crime was a watershed event that changed peoples' attitudes about youth violence and incited controversy in Canada.

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Main information sources:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelly-ellard-reena-virk-hearing-1.3941842http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/convicted-b-c-killer-kelly-ellard-allowed-escorted-prison-absences-1.3302583http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/crime/youthcrime_timeline.htmlttp://vancouversun.com/news/crime/reena-virk-murder-nearly-two-decades-ago-greater-victoria-lost-its-innocencehttp://www.timescolonist.com/news/kelly-ellard-30-waives-latest-parole-hearing-for-1997-murder-of-victoria-teen-reena-virk-1.24596http://www.academia.edu/1268100/A_fair_trial_Race_and_the_retrial_of_Kelly_Ellardhttps://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/reena-virk-critical-perspectives-on-a-canadian-murder

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Release date

Lydbog: 1. maj 2017