Renae Donald to reappear on Friday for sentencing submissions

Renae Lorraine Donald, of Mayfield, appeared before Justice Robert Pearce in the Launceston Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old pleaded guilty in March to being an accessory after the fact to the murder of her ex-boyfriend Tyson Clark-Robertson.

Crown prosecutor John Ransom presented his sentencing submissions in March, but Donald's lawyer Mark Doyle adjourned his mitigation while a mental health report was completed on Donald.

Mr Doyle told the court on Wednesday Donald hadn't received a copy of the report until he saw her in court, so it was unknown whether there would be submissions that prosecution might disagree with.

The hearing was adjourned to Friday, but Justice Pearce said if evidence was required it would need to take place on another day.

Donald, her new boyfriend Ian Rosewall and Mr Clark-Robertson lived at a Mayfield house on Mitchell Street together in 2016.

On July 16 of that year, Mr Clark-Robertson and Rosewall were hanging makeshift curtains when the victim told his killer 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 his 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 murderer was sentenced to 22 years' jail.

Over the next nine months Donald lied to police about Mr Clark-Robertson's location and made it appear the victim was alive by using his Facebook to message his family.

Donald was remanded to reappear on Friday.