Parole denied for drunk driver who killed four

GRAVENHURST, Ont. — A drunk driver who killed three young children and their grandfather in a crash north of Toronto continues to minimize his problems with alcohol and must address the issue before he can be released into the community, a parole board panel ruled Wednesday.

By underestimating his misuse of alcohol, Marco Muzzo is sabotaging the progress he could be making while behind bars, members of the Parole Board of Canada said in denying the 32-year-old both day and full parole.

Muzzo, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 after a guilty plea in the crash, can appeal the ruling in the next two months or reapply for parole in a year.

He pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm in the crash.

The collision in Vaughan, Ont., claimed the lives of nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his fiveyear-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously injured.