Crime boss’s murder appeal rejected by court
A crime boss who shot and murdered a man before a dangerous car chase has had his hopes of overturning his conviction dashed by a court.
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Jailed crime boss George Marrogi has had his bid to overturn a murder conviction rejected.
Lawyers acting for Marrogi, 34, faced Victoria’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday morning as a panel of justices handed down its decision.
Justice Phillip Priest said the underworld figure’s application appeal was refused, noting written reasons would be handed down at a later date.
Marrogi was jailed for a maximum term of 32 years in April last year after a jury found him guilty of the shooting murder of Kadir Ors on September 26, 2016.
He fired 13 shots at Mr Ors with a semi-automatic pistol, who was meeting associates at a bus stop outside the Campbellfield Shopping Plaza.
Seven of the shots struck the man who collapsed to the ground, while Marrogi fled in a stolen red Holden Commodore.
He was chased by associates of Mr Ors, slowing his vehicle to fire a number of shots at the pursuing car.
Marrogi was forced to ditch the vehicle after losing a tyre in the pursuit and fled on foot back to his home.
His DNA and that of a unidentified person were found on the lid of an ammunition box left in the car.
Sentencing Marrogi last year, Justice Paul Coghlan labelled the offending “one of the most blatant examples of murder” he’d ever seen.
“The chasing of another citizen in a suburban shopping centre in the middle of the afternoon while shooting with a handgun … has about it as high a degree of lawlessness,” he said.
He appealed the conviction at a hearing in March, maintaining he was not the shooter.
Lawyers told the Court of Appeal the case rested on poor circumstantial evidence and a faulty police timeline of events.
The appeal decision, reached by Justices Phillip Priest, Kim Hargrave and Cameron Macaulay, will be published at a later date.
Originally published as Crime boss’s murder appeal rejected by court
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