The teenager - who cannot be identified - came from his home in NSW to Melbourne in December 2021 to visit his mother, who had previously abandoned him.
The 19-year-old, who was 17 at the time of the stabbing, was drunk and potentially on drugs when he approached 40-year-old Adam Cassar at Melton train station in the early hours of December 29, 2021.
The pair had a fractured relationship given she had abandoned her son, and whatever he hoped to get out of their meeting didn't eventuate, the teenager's barrister said. Cassar's daughter, who lives interstate, said she and her father didn't always see eye to eye, but his killer took away his chance to make things right.
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