A woman has been jailed for helping her new boyfriend conceal the murder of her ex-boyfriend Tyson Timothy Clark-Robertson for nearly nine months.
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Renae Lorraine Donald pleaded guilty on March 12 to being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Mr Clark-Robertson.
Ian Rosewall, Donald's boyfriend, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Clark-Robertson, but the killer changed his plea to guilty in March.
On July 16, 2016, Mr Clark-Robertson and Rosewall were drinking and smoking marijuana.
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The pair started to hang makeshift curtains in their Mitchell Street house when Mr Clark-Robertson told Rosewall to "get me another cone, you paedo dog".
Rosewall "lost it" because he felt the comment was an insult about the 26-year-age gap between him and girlfriend Donald.
"Angry as hell", Rosewall picked up a hammer being used to hang the curtains and hit Mr Clark-Robertson at least four times to the back of the head.
Mr Clark-Robertson convulsed on the floor briefly and then stopped moving.
Rosewall put the victim's body in a shed in the backyard and then buried him in a shallow grave within a week of the murder.
The 24-year-old victim's highly decomposed body was discovered nine months after he was killed.
Donald and Rosewall lied to police about Mr Clark-Robertson's whereabouts, collected nearly $17,000 of the victim's Centrelink payments and sent messages from his Facebook page to make it appear he was still alive.
Donald lied to police even after Mr Clark-Robertson's body was discovered.
She told them she'd recently seen Mr Clark-Robertson at Scottsdale and denied accessing his Facebook account.
In a second interview with the police a day later, Donald admitted to accessing her ex-boyfriend's Facebook account on "one or two occasions".
It was not inferred that Donald assisted with burying Mr Clark-Robertson's body in a shallow grave in the backyard of the house the trio lived at, but crown prosecutor John Ransom previously told the court she was aware of the murder and entered a "joint and sophisticated strategy" with Rosewall to avoid being caught.
Justice Robert Pearce sentenced Donald to six years' jail, with a non-parole period of three years.
Rosewall was sentenced to 22 years' jail, backdated to his arrest on April 11.
The murderer will be eligible for parole after 12.5 years.