NO PAROLE FOR KILLER DRIVER.
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, 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-yearold both day and full parole.
“We don’t question your remorse,” board member Kevin Corcoran said in a hearing at the Beaver Creek prison in Gravenhurst, Ont. “It’s obvious that this is a very difficult thing for you to deal with.” However, he said, “we have to be mindful that your actions caused the deaths of four people.”
Muzzo, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 after a guilty plea, can appeal the ruling in the next two months or reapply for parole in a year.
During an emotional hearing, he was pressed on his drinking habits prior to the September 2015 collision and his record of driving infractions, many for speeding.
Muzzo, who showed little emotion through most of the questioning, was confronted with a 2012 incident that saw him charged with public intoxication after he threatened a bouncer at a strip club and tried to kick out the windows of a police cruiser after his arrest.
Muzzo insisted it was an isolated incident, that he seldom drank and only to excess on birthdays and other festive occasions. Corcoran disagreed.
“This speaks to a history,” the parole board member said.
The collision in Vaughan, Ont., claimed the lives of nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their twoyear-old sister Milly and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville.