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The provincial court in Charlottetown could not confirm Monday that Brent McGuigan’s father was sentenced to nine months in prison for the accident.

More than a dozen victim impact statements were submitted with the court.

In one of them, Brent McGuigan’s only daughter Donna said she has become consumed with hatred as a result of the killings.

“I feel so much anger and hatred that it scares me,” she told the court, sobbing. “I hate that they died this way and it haunts me.”

Marie McGuigan, Brent’s widow and Brendon’s mother, said her life has changed forever.

“I pray to God everyday for strength,” said Marie, who was home at the time of the murders and discovered the gruesome scene.

“I will never be the same. … A part of me died with them that night.”

There were several emotional outbursts in the courtroom, including one that led to a man being ejected from the public gallery.

After the sentencing decision was read, Vuozzo cursed and screamed, resisting the officers as he was taken from the courtroom while members of the public cried and yelled back at him.

”You’ve sentenced me to life and I sent them to death,” Vuozzo yelled, according to CBC News.

The murders rocked the rural island community outside Charlottetown, where the phonebook lists dozens of McGuigans and Vuozzos — none of whom wished to speak on Monday.

Vuozzo, who reportedly lived with his mother not far from St. Mary’s Church, suffered from depression for years, the court heard on Monday.

“People are really in shock. It’s a tight-knit community,” said Father Gerard Chaisson shortly after the murders last year.

Chaisson is the priest for both the Vuozzo’s St. Mary’s parish in Montague and the McGuigan’s St. Paul’s in nearby Sturgeon.

”We know everybody in each of the parishes,” he said. “I visited with both families and I’m telling you it was very difficult to go and be with them.”

National Post with files from The Canadian Press

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