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The children’s mother, Jennifer Neville-Lake, had to learn her entire world had just been destroyed when she saw her van’s twisted metal on the news.

To his credit, Muzzo never tried to evade responsibility or even seek bail. He pleaded guilty and didn’t appeal his 10-year jail term, believed to be the stiffest on record for impaired driving causing death.

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So how much time is enough time?

Whatever it is, it’s certainly not the scant three years that he had served when Muzzo first applied for day and full parole in November 2018.

The board took just 20 minutes to deny his release. No one questioned Muzzo’s remorse but rather his lack of insight into his issues with alcohol.

Insisting the tragedy was an isolated incident and he didn’t need alcohol counselling, Muzzo then stunned the parole hearing when he said he’d need to consume eight or nine drinks before considering himself too impaired to drive.

And for the first time, Muzzo had disclosed that three years before the crash, he’d been jailed briefly for public intoxication after being denied entry to a Vaughan strip club: When arrested, he was “belligerent and rude” to police and tried to kick out the cruiser windows.

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No, he still didn’t get it.

“It would seem you were trying to present yourself as a modest and responsible drinker who had simply made a terrible mistake on the day of the fatal decision,” the two-member panel said in its written decision.

“In the board’s view, you intentionally failed to disclose key information as you were hoping to paint yourself in a better light. In reality, you were simply impeding the progress you might have otherwise made.”