A Melbourne underworld figure has been jailed for 32 years for the murder of a man outside a Campbellfield shopping plaza.
George Marrogi, 33, arrived at the shopping centre car park in a stolen red Holden Commodore on the afternoon of September 26, 2016.
He got out of the car and shot 24-year-old Kadir Ors 13 times in the back, leg, hip and buttocks in broad daylight.
In his final case before his retirement Justice Paul Coghlan said Marrogi would be sentenced as a serious violent offender who had carried out a sustained attack in a public place.
“This is one of the most blatant examples of murder that I have seen,” he said.
The motive for the killing is still unknown, but Justice Coghlan said Mr Ors had been tricked into visiting the plaza where he was shot.
During one of the four Supreme Court trials Marrogi faced over the killing, the jury was told that his DNA had been found on a torn piece of cardboard from an ammunition packet left in the Commodore, which was found abandoned in a nearby suburb.
The cardboard was part of a packet of 9mm Sellier and Bellot brand bullets, the same type used in the shooting.
Other evidence included CCTV footage of Marrogi dressed in black, getting out of the Commodore and running after Mr Ors.
Marrogi has maintained his innocence despite the fourth jury’s eventual guilty verdict.
He has been in trouble with the law since the age of 16, with previous convictions for armed robbery, attacking a police officer and manslaughter over a fatal stabbing at Roxburgh Park.
Marrogi was this week charged with heading a crime ring from prison, allegedly ordering associates to import drugs while pretending to call his lawyer from jail.
But Justice Coghlan said he did not regard the prisoner as a hopeless case.
Marrogi will serve 27 years before being eligible for parole.
