BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Drunk driver Marco Muzzo, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the 2015 Vaughan crash that claimed the lives of three children and their grandfather, has been granted day parole, the children’s mother Jennifer Neville-Lake confirms.
Earlier story follows…
A parole hearing will be held today for convicted drunk driver Marco Muzzo.
It is Muzzo’s second parole hearing since being sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the 2015 collision in Vaughan that claimed the lives of siblings Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, Harrison Neville-Lake, 5, Milly Neville-Lake, 2, and their 65-year-old grandfather Gary Neville. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously injured in the crash.
The Parole Board of Canada had initially said that today’s hearing at Beavercreek Minimum Security Institution in Gravenhurst would go ahead without victim impact statements amid the COVID-19 pandemic but it reversed its decision following weeks of advocacy by the children’s mother Jennifer Neville-Lake.
The board now says that it has made “technological and procedural enhancements” in order to provide victims the ability to participate at hearings via telephone.
In a message posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Neville Lake included the number of days each of her children lived alongside the number of days that Muzzo has been in custody – 1,656.
“He has served just over four years. Their killer wants out now. Again,” she said, including the hashtag #consequencesmatter.
Muzzo previously pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm in connection with the 2015 crash, which occurred as he was returning from Pearson International Airport following a bachelor party in Miami.
At his first hearing on Nov. 7, 2018, Muzzo was denied both day parole and full parole.
The board stated in its decision at the time that Muzzo had “sabotaged” his rehabilitation by “severely underestimating” his problems with alcohol and failing to seek help while behind bars.
Speaking with CP24 on Tuesday, MADD Canada CEO Andrew Murie said that whatever decision the board takes today will ultimately be of little comfort to the Neville-Lake family, even if they elect to keep Muzzo behind bars for the time being.
“It is just unbelievably painful what that family has gone through,” he said. “Their whole lives have been destroyed. It doesn’t matter what happens with (Marco) Muzzo, he moves on. This family is devastated for life.”
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