Two of Greater Victoria’s most notorious teenage killers recently appeared on the Parole Board of Canada.
Derik Lord, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of two people, has extended his probation obligations to include overnight privileges.
Lord and another juvenile murderer, Kelly Ellard, received a six-month extension of their parole.
Lord was 17 when he and another student, David Muir, carried out a plan by a third teenager, Darren Huenemann, to kill Huenemann’s mother and grandmother in October 1990.
All three teenagers were convicted in 1992.
Now 47 years old, with wife and son, Lord maintains his innocence in relation to these crimes.
Sharon Huenemann was 47 and her mother, Doris Leatherbarrow, was 69 when they were punched and stabbed in the throat in the kitchen of Leatherbarrow’s Tsawwassen house as they were preparing to serve dinner for two teenagers.
Huenemann attended the same Saanich High School as Lord and Muir and had promised them cars, houses, and monthly salaries if they killed his relatives and cleared the way for an inheritance that Huenemann believed would be about $ 3 million.
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Lord was granted a suspended sentence in March 2020, which was renewed in July 2020. A decision by the Parole Board of Canada released on January 14th indicated that some programs were not available to Lord due to the pandemic. But he has shown some self-improvement as he worked towards reintegration.
Lord’s probation prevents him from traveling to Vancouver Island or the lower mainland, and he must have no direct or indirect contact with the victims’ families.
In a decision also released on Jan. 14, the Parole Board of Canada extended Kelly Ellard’s vacation eligibility for five and two for an additional six months, allowing her to spend five nights a week at her residence and two nights at a communal housing facility ( Transitional facility).
Ellard, now called Kerry Sims, was convicted of the second degree murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk in 1997 and given a life sentence.
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At the age of 15, Ellard von Virk was teeming with several other teenagers. Along with a teenager, Ellard held Virk underwater near a Greater Victoria Bridge until she stopped moving.
Although she was a teenager at the time of the murder, the nature of the offense gave her an adult sentence. She was eligible to apply for parole in 2013 but did not apply until 2016 and was initially rejected. In February 2016, Ellard received permission to take temporary escorted trips to parenting programs and doctor’s appointments.
Ellard is now in his late 30s and has two children.
She received her first suspended sentence in November 2017, which the Parole Board extended several times in six-month increments.
Their conditions also include not using drugs or alcohol following a treatment plan, avoiding anyone involved in criminal activity or substance abuse, and avoiding direct or indirect contact with members of the von Virk family.
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