A Sydney woman has avoided jail for her role in the death of a man who was killed with a samurai sword during a botched home invasion.
Hannah Quinn, 26, was cleared last year of the murder of Jett McKee, but was later found guilty as an accessory after the fact to manslaughter for "temporarily evading" police after a violent robbery in Forest Lodge in August 2018.
On Friday afternoon, Quinn was given a two-year community corrections order and she would be required to undergo treatment for her mental health conditions.
Quinn, who arrived at court wearing a pale pink trouser suit and flanked by her family and supporters, became emotional as the sentencing was read out.
The court heard Mr McKee had stormed the granny flat of Quinn's partner, Blake Davis, with an imitation pistol and a knuckle duster and attacked the pair before fleeing.
Quinn chased Mr McKee down the street after he snatched her bag and when her boyfriend caught up to them, he cracked Mr McKee's skull with the sword.
The panicked pair then fled their inner-city home, paying cash to stay at several hotels across Sydney before handing themselves into police days later.
In her sentencing of Quinn today, Justice Natalie Adams said the defendant had acted out a "sense of misguided loyalty and emotional attachment to Mr Davis".
Justice Adams rejected the prosecutor's case that Quinn sought to evade police entirely and that her offending was on the lower end of criminality.
She also dismissed the argument that when Quinn cleaned Davis's head wound, where he was punched by a knuckle duster, that it was an attempt to conceal evidence.
"Nothing that Quinn did in that time was to avoid apprehension indefinitely - they did not leave Sydney, let alone NSW," Justice Adams said.
"Ms Quinn made no effort to conceal identity and she stuck with her boyfriend at that time out of loyalty".
Justice Adams said she wasn't satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Quinn knew Mr McKee was dead, citing he had walked almost 80 metres from where he was fatally struck before collapsing.
"I am unable to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that she knew he was dead when she fled the scene," she said.
But she found that Quinn had not shown remorse for her actions following the attack.
"Although I am satisfied she has been profoundly affected, I am not satisfied she is remorseful."
Justice Adams also accepted glowing character references written on behalf of Quinn and that it would be unlikely she would re-offend.
The court heard the couple were "small-time" drug dealers and daily cannabis users, but neither had a history of violence or crime.
In a letter submitted by Quinn, which expressed sympathies to Mr McKee's family, she said since the violent events outside their Forest Lodge home she had been waking up every single day "to my own personal living nightmare in hell".
Quinn said she had been suffering from night terrors and regularly contemplated suicide.
Defence barrister Tom Hughes had told the sentencing hearing the fact they hadn't gone to police immediately had been "to take stock of the situation" rather than an attempt to evade justice.
However, the judge rejected his submission that Quinn's offending was at the lowest end of seriousness.
Her sentencing comes almost two months after Davis was given five years and three months for manslaughter with a non-parole period of two years and nine months.