Daisy Jane Phillips was charged with concealing a serious indictable offence of another person after two Mogriguy men were arrested and charged for shootings at a Wheelers Lane residence and the clubhouse of bikie gang, the Rebels.

The accused woman, aged in her forties, looked relieved as she left court yesterday, a convicted but free woman.

Magistrate Howard Hamilton gave Phillips a suspended sentence on the condition she enter an 11-month good behaviour bond.

Phillips’ partner Raymond Grant and Darrell John Wright faced court last year on charges relating to the shootings of the two Dubbo buildings in November 2004, as well as a shooting into a Mogriguy residence in January 2005.

Grant and Phillips were both arrested and charged when police raided a property near Mogriguy last year. Wright was arrested soon after.

Phillips’s sentencing has dragged out for much of the year after she entered a plea of guilty in January.

She last faced court on April 6 when the defence asked Magistrate Hamilton to suspend her sentence.

The defence said in her submission earlier this month that there were reasons why Phillips had not come forth.

Phillips felt there were threats to her safety and to her partner’s safety from the Rebels motorcycle club and her partner’s co-accused in the shooting who lived in the same residence as herself, the defence said.

She had a sense of loyalty to her partner and was suffering ill health, the defence said.

The court heard that Phillips had said, “I thought if I just kept quiet it would all go away”.

On April 6 the court heard that Phillips was previously married, was a mother of three children in their twenties, the oldest of whom had a brain injury.

She remained in a relationship with Mr Grant.