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Reena Virk (March 10, 1983 – November 14, 1997) was a resident of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Her status as a bullied murder victim attracted substantial media attention in Canada. Virk was first swarmed by a group of friends. The names of six of the girls involved in the first beating, known collectively as "the Shoreline Six," have not all been released. Following the first beating, Warren Glowatski, and Kelly Ellard murdered Virk. Glowatski was given a life sentence after being convicted of second-degree murder. Ellard was tried three times. The verdict of her third trial, a conviction, was set aside. The verdict was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada which ruled not to hold a fourth trial in an 8-1 decision, upholding the conviction and sentence. ''The Globe and Mail'' commented at the time that her case had been "elevated into a national tragedy."〔"Reena Virk's short life and lonely death," The Globe and Mail, 27 November 1997〕 A pair of Canadian sociologists have described the case as a watershed moment for a "moral panic" over girl violence by the Canadian public in the late 1990s. ==Reena Virk== Virk came from a large extended family who had emigrated from India. An article in ''Saturday Night'' described her immediate family as "a minority within a minority," as they were of the Jehovah's Witness religion in the local South Asian community of 3,000 which was predominantly Sikh.〔"Who was Reena Virk?" 1 April 1998, Saturday Night, 15 Vol. 113, No. 3〕 Virk has been described as a girl who was desperate for acceptance amongst her peers, but was taunted and/or ostracized by these girls whose subculture was influenced by Los Angeles street gangs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Reena Virk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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