Marrogi was in prison awaiting sentence for the murder of Kadir Ors,whom he fatally shot outside Campbellfield Plaza on September 26,2016. On Friday,he was ordered to serve at least 27 years before he is eligible for parole. Marrogi was found guilty of murder by a Supreme Court jury last year.
Justice Paul Coghlan said the 33-year-old had spent 15 of the past 16 years in custody for other crimes and time on remand over Ors’ death. Marrogi was arrested and taken into custody the day after he shot Ors andsat through three trials,which all ended without verdict,before he was found guilty by a fourth jury.
One of Marrogi’s prior trials was aborted when a juror reported to the judge her concern that she saw an associate of the accused man in her apartment building. Coghlan discharged the jury over concerns the juror’s worry had contaminated the rest of the jury.
Marrogi maintains he wasn’t the gunman,but Coghlan said the jury’s verdict and forensic evidence – he was found to have fired 13 shots from a .22 semi-automatic pistol at Ors and hit him at least seven times – satisfied him of an intention to kill.
“This is one of the most blatant examples of murder that I have seen,” said Coghlan,who marked his final day on the bench on Friday after 15 years as a Supreme Court judge.
He said Marrogi’s act in chasing Ors through the car park,while shoppers were nearby,and then shooting him from five metres before driving off,“has about it a high degree of lawlessness”.