WA:- skinhead murder update.

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/11/05/12/20623052-7651329-Attwood_right_who_led_the_neo_Nazi_group_Aryan_Girls_has_protest-a-12_1572957491840.jpg

A neo-Nazi who was jailed for life for murdering her partner as he slept in his Perth home is seeking to overturn her conviction, insisting she's innocent and arguing her lawyer didn't follow instructions.

Alan Taylor was killed in April 2016 at the Girrawheen house he shared with the mother of his son, Melony Jane Attwood, 39, and her 22-year-old live-in lover Robert Edhouse.

The 42-year-old FIFO boilermaker was bludgeoned with a hammer and left to die while the killers messed up the house to make it look like a burglary, then went to a movie in a bid to create an alibi

Attwood, who led the neo-Nazi group Aryan Girls, has continuously protested her innocence.

But she and Edhouse, who was the president of Aryan Nations, were both convicted of murder after a Supreme Court of WA trial last year.

Attwood testified in person in the WA Court of Appeal on Tuesday, admitting she signed a document acknowledging she had elected not to take the stand at trial, believing 'the evidence was enough to speak for itself'.

She said she wasn't aware at the time, however, that Edhouse was going to get in the dock and testify against her.

Attwood insisted her lawyer Richard Utting only told her later Edhouse was going to use a 'cut-throat' defence, so she would at the very least be convicted of being an accessory

Her voice wavered as she said she 'broke down and cried' in response.

'I didn't have anything to do with it after the fact or before,' she said.

Attwood also insisted she didn't agree to Mr Utting not cross-examining Edhouse.

'I believed that my lawyer would stand up for me,' she said.

'I was shocked sitting in the dock but I didn't want to interrupt and say something because it would be rude.'

Attwood said she was also shocked Mr Utting conceded in his closing address that she lied to police and helped cover up the crime, but only out of loyalty to her white supremacist friends.

Edhouse's former acolyte Corey Joshua Dymock was acquitted of murder but found guilty of being an accessory while a fourth person, an associate of the group who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty to murder and was given a reduced sentence for testifying.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is also appealing the minimum 21-year sentences handed down to Attwood and Edhouse


I wonder if Aryan nation's actually met with these guys before setting up shop here , or thechapter was established from some kind of long distance communications?

Looks like they have a bad name here now. Can't see many people wanting involvement.