Reena Virk: What has changed? Rootlessness, poverty, trauma
In the eight years since the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk, the tragedy has burned itself into Victoria's collective consciousness. Nearly everyone who lives in the city knows the basic story line: How a misfit teen went with a group of other teens she hoped would be her friends to the secluded darkness under the Craigflower Bridge. How she was then swarmed and beaten by seven of the group - six girls and one boy, all aged 14 to 16. And how two of the group then followed her as she struggled back across the bridge and beat her further, with one girl finally drowning her in the Gorge Waterway.
In the eight years since the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk, the tragedy has burned itself into Victoria's collective consciousness. Nearly everyone who lives in the city knows the basic story line: How a misfit teen went with a group of other teens she hoped would be her friends to the secluded darkness under the Craigflower Bridge. How she was then swarmed and beaten by seven of the group - six girls and one boy, all aged 14 to 16. And how two of the group then followed her as she struggled back across the bridge and beat her further, with one girl finally drowning her in the Gorge Waterway.