Muzzo's request to move to York Region shows lack of 'victim empathy', says parole board

Marco Muzzo is currently working at a satellite office for family firm

Yorkregion.com
Feb.25, 2021
Jeremy Grimaldi

Marco Muzzo has some work to do in regards to “victim empathy”, according to a written decision released today by the Parole Board of Canada.

This, after the 34-year-old requested a move back to his King City home, which sits near to the memorial for the four people he killed in Vaughan, at Kirby Road and Kipling Avenue.

The victims of his impaired driving include Jennifer Neville Lake’s father Gary Neville, along with her three children Daniel, Harry and Milly.

“Your insistence on returning to live in the community where the victims are memorialized and the surviving victims regularly frequent, is concerning,” the board wrote in its six-page document released to yorkregion.com on Feb. 24. “Your intention to move back to the residence you share with your fiancée, it appeared to the Board that you were thinking more of your own interests than those of the people harmed by your offending.”

Muzzo was released on full parole on Feb. 9 after a hearing in which Jennifer Neville Lake and her husband, Edward Lake, read from victim impact statements asking that Muzzo not be given parole.

“Victim Statements express the remaining family members' unrelenting grief, anger, fear, and frustration,” the hearing heard. “Their anguish is palpable. The family dynamic has been shattered to the point that even their interpersonal relationships have suffered. They do not believe that you are truly remorseful, and they are afraid of your return to the community.”

Despite this, the board also found that Muzzo, who has 10 speeding fines on his record, has been working hard to reintegrate into the community, working with a social worker and both a psychiatrist and addiction counsellor who suggest that it would benefit Muzzo’s integration to be allowed to return to York Region.

The board, however, said Muzzo is not only not allowed in York Region, but also Brampton, where Neville-Lake and Lake reside.

Muzzo, sentenced to 10 years for impaired driving causing death in 2016, is currently working at a satellite office at his family firm.

“The Board acknowledges that you have made gains in attitudinal areas…you still have much to learn in order to manage your behaviour and gain a greater appreciation of the impact of your return to the community where you own a home,” the board added.