Taylor threatened the two men with a knife and punched and kicked Mr Batchelor while Jones beat him with a pole. Mr Batchelor had been having a sexual encounter with another man in a disabled toilet when Jones and Taylor burst in and bashed him. The Supreme Court was told Jones and Taylor, who was with his four children, were camping in the reserve and were angry it was used by gay men for sexual encounters.
Mark Taylor and Daniel Wade Jones were found guilty of murdering 48-year-old Warren Batchelor at the Middle Swan Reserve in November 2013. Two Perth men have been sentenced to life in jail with a 21-year minimum for the fatal bashing of a gay man in a public toilet at a Perth reserve.
