Susan Cynthia Reid applied in Albury Local Court for bail after having bail refused in November over posts aimed at Detective Sen-Constable Margaret Saunders.

Reid has spent six weeks in jail as police prepare a brief of evidence on charges of sending a document threatening death or grievous bodily harm and two counts using a carriage service to menace or harass.

Magistrate David O’Connor granted bail yesterday when told the evidence was incomplete with four police statements still outstanding.

One detective returns from leave on January 16 and Mr O’Connor has extended the brief orders until January 30.

He said considering the prosecution was unable to comply with the brief orders, he was prepared to allow bail.

But Reid, 35, from Ironbark Road, cannot contact Sen-Constable Saunders in any way.

Nor can she use a computer or any device capable of accessing the internet.

She has to report to police in Albury each Monday and Friday.

Mr O’Connor was told Reid was the mother of two children.

They have been in the care of her parents while she has been in custody.

“The situation in this matter is rather curious,” Mr O’Connor said.

He said it appeared that Reid had an obsession with Sen-Constable Saunders and she had been convicted on similar charges in 2009.

“The harassment by way of Facebook appears to be escalating,” he said.

Mr O’Connor was told Sen-Constable Saunders was the police informant in the prosecution of Reid’s former partner, Craig Anthony Reid.

He is in jail until 2020, serving a murder sentence.

Reid pleaded guilty to the murder of his former partner, Samantha Meredith, 27, at her Lavington home in 2002.

Her body was found in the boot of a car at Holbrook in November, 2002, after she was murdered on August 7.