A cannabis grower jailed after killing and dissolving a friend over fears he was a police informant has lost a bid to be freed.
Killer Leonard Borg’s effort to overturn the conviction in the Victorian Court of Appeal on Tuesday was shot down for lacking merit.
Borg, 40, was jailed in 2012 after a Supreme Court jury found he had murdered Peter Rule, 56, at a Campbellfield factory in Melbourne’s north three years earlier.
The court was told Borg was growing cannabis crops at rented factories in 2009 – one of which was raided by police in March that year.
In the following months, he became suspicious that Mr Rule informed police of the location and had been “snooping” around another factory in Thomastown.
On November 15, Borg took Mr Rule out to dinner before driving him to a Campbellfield factory, where he was shot multiple times with a rifle.
