The mother of a man who gunned down gangland figure Gavin Preston has called her killer son respectful, caring and kind as prosecutors pushed for him to be jailed for life.
Jaeden Tito's mother Levi took the unusual step of reading her character reference aloud in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday as her son faced a pre-sentence hearing.
Tito, 25, and his co-offender Rabii Zahabe, 26, were in May found guilty of murdering Preston, 50, in Melbourne's northwest on September 9, 2023.
