GRAVENHURST, ONT.—Convicted drunk driver Marco Muzzo — who in 2015 crashed into a minivan north of Toronto killing three children and their grandfather — has been denied parole at his first opportunity.At his parole hearing Wednesday, Muzzo, 32, asked the board for release on day parole. He pleaded guilty in court in 2016 to several counts of impaired driving causing death and bodily harm for the 2015 crash that killed 65-year-old Gary Neville and his three grandchildren, Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, Harrison, 5, and Milagros, 2. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously injured when Muzzo’s SUV slammed into the family’s minivan.“I don’t and won’t get parole from this life sentence of misery and despair,” the children’s mother, Jennifer Neville-Lake, told the board at Beaver Creek prison in an emotional statement.She said Muzzo’s expression of remorse rang hollow as he had applied for day parole at the first opportunity.“I miss just hearing their voices in the house. I miss being a dad,” said Edward Lake in a statement read on his behalf.Muzzo is considered a low risk to reoffend and his case-management team feels “very strongly” his risk to the community can be managed if he is released to a halfway house for day parole, as well as on full parole when eligible next May.Read more: ‘You killed all my babies,’ grieving mother tells Marco MuzzoMarco Muzzo offers tearful apology to grieving couple at sentencing hearingMarco Muzzo wants damages reduced in lawsuit over drunk driving deaths“I should have known better, I took a chance,” Muzzo, at times crying, told the board about his decision to drive that day.Much of the latter half of Muzzo’s parole hearing focused on his driving record — 10 non-criminal convictions for speeding in the last 10 years and the revelation that police often reduced the amount of his tick ...
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