Daryl Royston Wayne Cook, 36, was found to be not guilty of the murder by way of insanity last month.

He was ordered to be held in a secure mental health facility indefinitely.

The court heard Cook, a long-time schizophrenic, had been in a psychotic state for at least two months before he was released from prison.

He believed he was a Christian warrior and God wanted him to kill heathens.

Cook walked into Voula Delios’ North Hobart store the day after he was released and stabbed her 22 times – 10 times in the neck.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Jane Ansell, said the inquest would probe Cook’s conduct and behaviour over his time in custody from October 2015 and management of his condition by the prison service.

Counsel for the state government, Paul Turner, said there were two concurrent reviews on Cook’s time in prison and on his release.

He said these would need to be completed before a meaningful inquest was to commence.

One review by the state’s Ombudsman Richard Connock is expected to be completed by the end of the year and tabled in Parliament to make it publicly available.

Mr Turner said Corrections Minister Elise Archer had also instructed a review take place for which a taskforce has been established with involvement from representatives from the Health and Justice departments.

Coroner Simon Cooper adjourned the case management conference on Tuesday which will now be held on December 3 at 9.30am.

He said there would be no opportunity for the inquest to start before May next year.