The day after taking part in a home invasion that left a woman dead, a 45-year-old grandmother thanked the "boys" who accompanied her.
But there is nothing to suggest Emma Louise Hinds knew at the time of writing the message that Megan Kirley had died in the attack, a Brisbane court was told on Monday.
Ms Kirley, 40, and her partner Pieter Pickering had gone to bed inside their shipping container home on a rural block at Karawatha, south of Brisbane, when the group arrived in the early hours of February 9, 2019.
Hinds and four others are alleged to have gone to the property intending to rob the couple of "money and most likely drugs", crown prosecutor Dejana Kovac said.
She told the court the group got out their vehicle, finding one door to the container slightly open.
Accomplice Cameron Lindsay Witoko was carrying a meat cleaver, and another was allegedly armed with a firearm.
Ms Kovac said Mr Pickering grabbed homemade nunchucks when the couple heard a car arrive.
He positioned himself at the edge of the bed in the container about a metre from the door, with Ms Kirley behind him.
As Mr Pickering swung the nunchucks towards the door, a man outside allegedly fired the gun hitting Ms Kirley in the back of the neck, killing her.
The group fled with Mr Pickering in pursuit.
"There is no basis to conclude that any of you realised Kirley had been fatally injured until sometime later," Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Peter Davis said in sentencing Hinds.
The following day Hinds sent a message to two men saying: "Thanks for last night, boys, I really appreciate it, hey."
But Justice Davis found there was no evidence to suggest that at the time Hinds sent the message she knew Ms Kirley had been shot or died.
The court was told Hinds' criminal history - which includes drug, violence and weapons offences - dates back to when she was 18.
Barrister Damian Walsh said the first Hinds, a mother of three and grandmother of a four-year-old, knew of the gun was when it was removed from the car, and she also helped police find the alleged gunman.
But Justice Davis sentenced Hinds on the basis she knew there would be a violent confrontation, and a gun would be present and used for intimidation.
"On any assessment the offending constituted a violent invasion of the home of Mr Pickering and Ms Kirley," he added.
Hinds was sentenced to nine years behind bars, the same jail term handed down to Witoko and Kobi Daniel Oram in January.
Hinds, Witoko and Oram all pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Stafford Emmerson and Geoffrey Dale Granz Glenn are expected to contest murder charges during a trial starting in June.
