The jury delivered their verdict in the Victorian Supreme Court at 12.30pm today, after retiring yesterday morning.
Twenty-eight-year old Veniamin died from three gunshot wounds in the La Porcella restaurant in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton on March 23.
The prosecution argued 49-year-old Gatto shot and killed Veniamin after inviting him to the restaurant.
After chatting for 30 minutes at a table with a number of Gatto's acquaintances, the pair went to a passageway at the rear of the restaurant, Crown prosecutor Geoff Horgan, SC, told the court during the six-week trial.
It was there that Veniamin suffered his fatal wounds.
Gatto, who remained at the scene until police arrived, admitted to the shooting, but claimed it was in self defence and that Veniamin had produced the murder weapon.
The trial, before Justice Philip Cummins began on April 28.
Emma Chamberlaine, msn15 June, 2005
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