There was more disturbing testimony at the Kelly Ellard murder trial in Vancouver on Tuesday. Two more young adults testified that Ellard confessed, in detail, about how she killed Reena Virk in 1997.

Virk, who was 14 at the time, was beaten and drowned in the Gorge Waterway in Victoria.

Ellard has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder.

Reena Virk

Jodene Rogers, a former friend of the accused, described what she was told six days after the fatal assault. Rogers testified Ellard told her how she and Warren Glowatski had followed an already injured Reena Virk across the Craigflower Bridge to make sure she didn't "rat them out."

She said Ellard described in detail how she mangled Virk's face, broke her arms, dragged her to the shoreline and then held Virk's head underwater for two or three minutes.

Rogers told the court Ellard joked about forgetting to take her foot off Virk's head.

Kelly Ellard

Rogers glared in the direction of Virk's family and friends as she left the courtroom.

She was followed by Chandelle Naysmith, who wasn't at the bridge the night of the attack, but told the court five days after the attack, Ellard took her to the scene after school.

She says Ellard described in detail how she rammed Virk's face into a tree, how she and Glowatski took turns punching Virk in the face and how they dragged her down into waist-high water where there was a struggle.

Naysmith says Ellard boasted about holding Virk's head underwater for 10 minutes.

The defence has been attacking the credibility of these witnesses, pointing out inconsistencies and omissions in earlier statements.

The witnesses claim to have either forgotten, or to have been too confused and scared to tell the truth seven years ago.