Bradley Scott Purkiss and Margaret Anne Otto have been found guilty of the murder.
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A jury of seven men and five women took five hours to reach the verdict.
The pair have been found guilty of the 2017 killing of Ms Otto's husband Dwayne Robert Davies.
Over the course of a five week trial, the jury heard from 48 witnesses, saw 110 exhibits and viewed 14 hours of video evidence before coming to the guilty verdicts.
First meeting in 2011, Purkiss had been close friends with the victim since 2014.
Otto and Mr Davies had been in a relationship on and off for 20 years, and been married for the four years before the victim's death.
Purkiss and Otto, who had a brief affair in 2016, colluded to kill Mr Davies.
On May 26, 2017, Purkiss lured Davies to his Elderslie property with the promise of viewing two motorcycles.
This was a ruse as part of the murder plan and gave Purkiss the opportunity to shoot Davies twice in a small cannabis grow shed on the rural property.
Purkiss then made an unexpected visit to his father in New Norfolk to arrange a shooting trip to Levendale for the next night where he dumped Mr Davies' body.
Police exhumed Mr Davies from a shallow grave on that Levendale property on June 3, 2017.
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