GRAVENHURST, ONT.— The man who killed her children and father in a drunk driving crash may have been denied release from prison Wednesday, but for Jennifer Neville-Lake, her own life sentence continues without the possibility of a reprieve.“I don’t and won’t get parole from this life sentence of misery and despair,” Neville-Lake said in an emotional statement to a two-member parole board panel, from whom killer drunk driver Marco Muzzo was requesting his release on day parole.After deliberating for about 20 minutes, the panel came back and denied both day and full parole. “You sabotaged your progress you may have otherwise made by underestimating your problem with substance misuse, if not abuse,” board member Kevin Corcoran told Muzzo, 32, in a packed hearing room at Beaver Creek prison. “We don’t question your remorse,” Corcoran said, adding Muzzo would need to pursue counselling in prison, especially regarding substance abuse. He can reapply for parole in one year, and he has two months to decide whether he wants to appeal Wednesday’s decision to the board’s appeal division. “Before we can grant you parole, we need to have confidence that you will not be a risk to yourself and the community,” Corcoran said. A full parole decision from the board will be released within two weeks.Muzzo was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2016 after pleading guilty to several counts of impaired driving causing death for the crash that killed Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, Harrison, 5, Milagros, 2, and their 65-year-old grandfather Gary Neville. The crash also seriously injured the children’s great-grandmother and grandmother, who was driving the minivan carrying the family when Muzzo blew through a stop sign.Court heard after his guilty plea that Muzzo had nearly three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash in September 2015 in Vaughan, having just arrived ...
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