After a parole board hearing Wednesday morning, the man convicted in connection to a fatal 2011 crash near Grande Prairie that left four teenaged boys dead, and a fifth injured, was granted full parole.

Brenden Holubowich, 24, appeared before the parole board in a two-hour hearing Wednesday – but it took the board about 20 minutes to come to their final conclusion.

As of June 15, the young man will be on full parole – months after he started serving day parole in October, 2013, and living in a halfway house.

In the hearing, Holubowich told the panel that on the night of October 21, 2011, he had been dealing with a breakup that had led to him drinking.

That night, a car with five teens inside was making a U-turn on the highway, when Holubowich’s vehicle t-boned the car. He had been driving at about 150 kilometres an hour – and he fled the scene.

As a result of the crash, Matthew Deller, 16, Vincent Stover, 16, Walter Borden-Wilkens, 15, and Tanner Hildebrand, 15, died – Zachary Judd, 15, sustained serious injuries in the crash.

Holubowich told the panel: “After the accident I don’t remember what happened. It hurts me every day.”

The man’s mother told CTV News that her son was ‘relieved’ at Wednesday’s decision.

Meanwhile, Connie Strong, the mother of Tanner Hildebrand, was hoping for a different outcome.

Strong read a statement before the board, pleading to keep Holubowich from being granted full parole, saying she wants to have a voice for her son.

“We kind of knew it was going to happen, but it’s still a kick in the rear,” Jennifer LaRose, Matthew Deller’s mother, told CTV News. “He’s not even been in jail for a full year.”

The panel also heard from Holubowich’s parole officer, and the halfway house where he’s been staying – both supported full parole.

Holubowich was the last to speak at his hearing, saying: “I’m so deeply sorry about everything and the hell that everyone’s going through.”

The panel said they believed he showed genuine remorse – something that does little to comfort the families of the boys killed in the crash.

“Until you lose your child, until you go through this, you just never really completely wrap your mind around [it], it just breaks you to the very centre of your being,” LaRose said. “You’re just never the same again.”

When his full parole starts, Holubowich will still be restricted from consuming alcohol, and must continue counselling, and he will still have a five-year driving prohibition.

With files from Amanda Anderson