Appeals lodged in murder case of Perth father Alan Taylor
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is appealing the jail sentences handed down to Robert Edhouse and Melony Attwood, the neo Nazi couple who were convicted of murdering Perth father of one Alan Taylor.
Attwood, who along with Edhouse was convicted of murdering Mr Taylor in his Girrawheen home in 2016, has also lodged her own appeal against her murder conviction.
Attwood and Edhouse, along with Corey Joshua Dymock, stood trial in the WA Supreme Court earlier this year accused of bludgeoning 42-year-old Mr Taylor to death.
Attwood, 37, and Edhouse, 22, were both found guilty of murder following a four-week trial.
They were both handed minimum 21-year jail sentences in the Supreme Court last month.
Dymock - who was acquitted of murder but found guilty of being an accessory to murder - was sentenced to a five-year prison term.
The DPP is now appealing the sentences given to both Attwood and Edhouse.
The appeals were lodged on May 24.
"The State has lodged appeals against the sentences imposed on Ms Attwood and Mr Edhouse," a DPP spokesperson confirmed.
"The ground is that there was an error of law when the offenders were given minimum non-parole periods of 21 years that were so inadequate as to manifest error."
Attwood meanwhile has lodged an appeal against her murder conviction.
Court documents show she is appealing the conviction on several grounds and is claiming her guilty verdict was "unreasonable and not supported by the evidence".
Attwood, who was Mr Taylor's partner of nine years and the mother of his child, along with Edhouse and Dymock, were members of the Aryan Nations white supremacist group.
Attwood and Edhouse had also started a sexual relationship before the murder was committed.
Mr Taylor, a qualified boilermaker and FIFO worker, was killed on the morning of April 22, 2016 as he slept in his Girrawheen home.
The father-of-one had nothing to do with the Ayran Nations group.
At last month's sentencing hearing, Justice Lindy Jenkins said she was satisfied Edhouse had helped inflict some of the blows on Mr Taylor, along with another co-accused who cannot be named, and who has already been sentenced for his role in the murder.
She said while Attwood did not take part in the fatal beating, she knew full well that Mr Taylor was to be fatally assaulted and had been "motivated" to get rid of him because she no longer wanted to be with him.
"Neither of you have shown any remorse," Justice Jenkins said of Attwood and Edhouse.
Justice Jenkins said she was satisfied Mr Taylor was unaware of the sexual relationship which had started between Edhouse and Attwood.
This was for a range of reasons, she said, including a series of text messages that Mr Taylor had sent Attwood in the lead-up to his death which "continued to show a loving attachment" to her, Justice Jenkins said.
Justice Jenkins described the murder as vicious, premeditated and horrendous.
She said the murder had not only deprived a young child of his father but also his mother who was now in jail.