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Neo-Nazis fight in dock after murder verdict handed down

Two Neo-Nazi men on trial for the murder of Perth man Alan Taylor came to blows in the dock shortly after the jury read their verdict on Monday afternoon. 

Melony Attwood, her lover Robert Edhouse, and her former housemate Corey Dymock, were on trial in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, accused of bludgeoning Attwood's partner Mr Taylor to death at his Girrawheen house in 2016. 

A jury on Monday found Attwood and Edhouse guilty of murdering Mr Taylor as part of a twisted plot to claim his life insurance and continue to live in his house as a couple. 

Dymock was acquitted of murder but found guilty of the lesser charge of being an accessory to murder. 

Edhouse and Dymock came to blows in the dock as they were led away and had to be pulled apart by several security guards.

Several guards held Edhouse down on the ground in the dock as he shouted obscenities.

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People in the public gallery of the courtroom screamed and cried as another man then ran from the back of the court towards the dock.

He too was restrained by security guards and a police detective before he could get any closer.

Mr Taylor, a fly-in, fly-out worker, was murdered on the morning of April 22, 2016 as he lay on his bed in his Girrawheen home.

His partner of nine years and mother of his child, Attwood and Edhouse - both members of white supremacist group Aryan Nations - have been on trial in Western Australia's Supreme Court accused of his murder along with Dymock.

Outside court a friend of the Taylor family read a statement on behalf of Alan's parents.

"Robert and Rosemary would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the best part of the last two years since Alan was murdered," the statement read.

"At times like this family and friends gather to help in any way they can and it really has helped us get through this terrible time.

"We'd like to thank those members of the WA Police Force who have done a terrific job investigating and bringing to light the events of that day and for keeping us all informed along the way."

Mr Taylor's father Robert, who was wearing a 'justice for Alan' badge on his shirt, spoke briefly to the media before leaving with friends and family.

"We will never get our son back, never," he said.

"Hopefully this will never happen to anybody else through that gang."

State prosecution lawyer Justin Walley, in his opening address on February 8, told the jury Attwood and Edhouse, who were both unemployed, "wanted Mr Taylor out of the way" so they could openly conduct their relationship, claim his life insurance and continue to live in his house.

The trio lived together as housemates along with Mr Taylor, 42, and Atwood's three-year-old son.

Attwood, 36, was the leader of Aryan Nations' girls division and Edhouse, 22, was the president of the chapter.

Attwood and Edhouse came up with a plan to kill Mr Taylor and roped in former housemate Corey Dymock, 21, the chapter's "sergeant at arms" and another man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, to help them.

On the day Mr Taylor died, Attwood and Edhouse left the house in the morning to drop Mr Taylor and Attwood's son at child care.

At 8:20am, a nurse arrived to take Mr Taylor's blood for his life insurance application.

About 9:30am, Attwood, Edhouse, Dymock and another man arrived back at the Girrawheen house.

Attwood turned up music in the house and Mr Taylor was bludgeoned in the head with a hammer.

Attwood, Edhouse and Dymock pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Taylor - instead Edhouse blamed the fourth person, who cannot be identified, as the lone attacker.

The teenager had previously pleaded guilty to his part in the killing.

Later on the day Mr Taylor was murdered, Edhouse and Attwood boasted to a friend about Mr Taylor's death and Attwood said she would be getting a lot of money, believing Mr Taylor's life insurance to be worth $1 million.

Attwood returned to the Girrawheen house at 4pm and called triple-0.

When an ambulance arrived, the paramedics waited outside for police to arrive as the Girrawheen house had been flagged on their system during a previous call-out, due to the Nazi and white supremacist items inside the home.

Mr Taylor was found dead by paramedics with a post-mortem showing he suffered six serious blows to the head with a blunt object, and likely lay dying on the floor of his bedroom for two to five hours after he was attacked.

Edhouse, Attwood and Dymock will be sentenced on May 1. They have all been remanded in custody.