George Marrogi fighting to have his murder conviction overturned

Gangland boss George Marrogi has lodged an application for another appeal, this time in the High Court of Australia.

Gangland boss George Marrogi will take his fight to beat a murder conviction all the way to the High Court.

Marrogi is serving a maximum 32 years in jail for the 2016 murder of Kadir Ors at Campbellfield Plaza in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

He failed in an attempt to have the Ors murder conviction overturned in the Victorian Court of Appeal earlier this year.

Marrogi, 34, has now lodged an application for another appeal, this time in the High Court of Australia.

George Marrogi is serving a maximum 32 years in jail for the 2016 murder of Kadir Ors.

His submission argues that the Court of Appeal decision erred on several grounds.

One was that it adopted the wrong test by evaluating whether circumstantial evidence led to a hypothesis consistent with guilt and whether it presented “solid obstacles” to his conviction.

A second was that the Court of Appeal “failed to conduct an independent assessment of whether the prosecution had excluded reasonable hypotheses consistent with innocence.”

The third related to the significance, effect and probative value of DNA evidence in the matter.

DNA found on a piece of cardboard in an abandoned vehicle was crucial to the successful prosecution.

It was found to have come from an ammunition packet which was allegedly ripped open in haste by Marrogi as he reloaded his pistol after killing Ors.

He was forced to open fire on an associate of Ors who was chasing him in the murder’s aftermath.

Marrogi’s international drug smuggling empire was torn apart last year by a major criminal investigation and asset confiscation operation involving the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police.

The Herald Sun revealed this month that $47 million in cash and assets had been stripped from a portfolio amassed by his Notorious Crime Family gang.