"The parole board said it had a number of concerns about the potential release of Ms. Ellard. It said the level of responsibility Ms. Ellard was accepting was still below what she was convicted of. Her trial heard she held Reena's head underwater.
The board also concluded she could not be managed safely in the community yet.
In her final comments to the board, Ellard expressed a desire to move on with her life using the phrase “enough is enough.”
“The parole board interpreted that as her showing a sense of entitlement, and I guess they felt perhaps that a humbler attitude was more appropriate given the circumstances,” said parole board spokesman Patrick Storey.
He said that while Ellard has made some “positive changes in her life and in her behaviour,” it wasn’t enough.
“It was their impression that she still seems to be minimizing certain aspects of the offence, and many of the changes she has made so far are recent,” Storey said.
The board said while she’s accepting more responsibility in Virk’s death, Ellard is still not admitting to what she was convicted of.
She’ll now return to her life sentence in prison and can apply for day parole again in a year."
Kelly Ellard denied day parole nearly two decades after Reena Virk murder | CTV Vancouver Island News
I highly doubt that in a year's time this murderess will have had an attitude change so we just may be re-visiting this topic next year as she appears to believe she is entitled to release.
