Marco Muzzo sentenced to 10 years in jail

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Marco Muzzo has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the drinking and driving deaths of three children and their grandfather last fall. Today was the final chapter in the painful criminal case against Muzzo who learned his fate in a Newmarket courtroom this morning.

There were tears from Muzzo as he sat in court. His sentence begins today, a sentence where he is eligible for parole in little over 3 years for the four counts of impaired driving causing death. After court finished today, it was the mother of the 3 young victims who delivered the most sobering reminder of the consequences that come with drinking and driving.

A photo is the lasting image that Jennifer Neville-Lake has of her children Harry and Milley, holding hands on their hospital beds moments before being taken off life support.
“I couldn’t pick which baby to turn off the machines first, I said can you put them together please? so they put them together and Edward and I crawled into bed with them.”

The machines turned off, their second and third child slipped away. Their other son Daniel had died three hours earlier, as had Jennifer’s father Gary. Today Jennifer wanted to make clear that all of this is the result of a choice made by Marco Muzzo.

“When you choose to drink and drive you’re hurting other families. You’re killing someone else’s babies like mine were killed. Like all of mine were killed on a beautiful Sunday afternoon just after 4 o’clock.”

It was September 27th, and Muzzo was returning home from his bachelor party in Miami, he had been drinking on the plane. He landed in the families corporate jet at Pearson airport, got in his Jeep Grand Cherokee and began to drive home. At the intersection of Kirby and Kipling Muzzo ran a stop sign, crashing into the Dodge Caravan carrying the three kids, their grandparents and great grand mother. Muzzo was arrested on the spot.

In February he pleaded guilty to 4 counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm. Today Justice Michelle Feurst handed down the 10 year sentence. Muzzo was credited for time served making the sentence 9 years and 4 months and a 12 year driving prohibition.

The maximum sentence is life in prison. Outside court, Jennifer Neville-Lake put the sentence in perspective. “His sentence is 10 years and none of my children saw 10 years.”