HALIFAX – One of three convicted killers involved in the slayings of three people at a McDonald’s restaurant in Cape Breton 20 years ago has been granted full parole.
The National Parole Board has decided Darren Richard Muise, who is now on day parole, should be released, subject to certain conditions.
Muise must avoid contact with surviving victims or their families, refrain from going to Sydney, N.S., avoid consuming illicit drugs or meeting with people with a criminal background.
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Muise, now 39, was 18 when he and two other young men robbed a McDonald’s in Sydney River in May 1992.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Neil Burroughs, a married father and maintenance worker at the restaurant.
He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years.
Archive video: Four people were gunned down at a McDonald’s restaurant in Sydney River, N.S. on May 7, 1992. Three of them died from their injuries. In this archive report from May 11, 1992, MITV’s Andrea Pescod reports on the aftermath of the shocking triple murder. In the second segment McDonald’s owner Garfield Lewis addresses media and the public about the tragic incident.
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