Drunk driver Muzzo has day parole extended

TORONTO, Ont. — Marco Muzzo, who was sentenced to a decade behind bars for a drunkdriving crash that killed four people, has had his day parole extended for another six months, Postmedia has learned.

“It is the Board’s opinion that you will not present an undue risk to society if released and that your release will contribute to the protection of society by facilitating your reintegration into society as a law-abiding citizen,” says the Parole Board of Canada’s decision, released Tuesday.

Muzzo, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to four counts of impaired driving causing death, and two of impaired driving causing bodily harm, was first released on day parole in May 2020, having served four years of his jail sentence. On Nov. 3, the parole board extended his day parole, and called for a parole hearing to discuss full parole.

“The Board has questions related to your offending and community behaviour that it would like to explore with you in a hearing setting,” says the decision.

The impaired driving charges stem from September 2015, when Muzzo returned to Toronto on a private jet he had flown in from Miami, where he’d been attending his bachelor party. He picked up his Jeep Cherokee, and drove towards his home in Woodbridge, Ont., despite having awoken in Miami feeling dazed and consuming three or four drinks on the plane.

Muzzo blew a stop sign in Vaughan, Ont., hitting the driver’s side of a minivan. The crash killed nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, and two-year-old sister Milly. The children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, was also killed.