The 39-year-old repeatedly shot his ex-wife's new partner at a roadside flower stall has been found guilty of attempted murder.
, 39, was on trial in the Victorian Supreme Court, admitting he did shoot Steven 'Stewie' Grant last year but saying he did so in self-defence.
The jury disagreed, taking four hours to deliberate before reaching its guilty verdict on Tuesday afternoon.The scene after the shooting in Melton in Melbourne's outer-west. The jury was told Malovski was extremely hostile toward Grant and bitterly resentful of the role his former wife's new partner seemed to be playing in the lives of their two young children.The day before Mother's Day last year, the woman and Grant were selling flowers at a roadside reserve in Melton, northwest of Melbourne, which was a tradition started by her father.
Malovski drove past the reserve, saw the pair and returned a short time later, where he chased Grant around the reserve and fired multiple shots.Five bullets struck Grant, who was initially diagnosed as a complete paraplegic after the shooting.Malovski will return to the Supreme Court for a pre-sentence hearing in December.
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