A Lavington woman who threatened to "kill, drown anyone" who implicated her ex-partner in firearms offences has admitted she tried to pervert the course of justice.
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The woman had been "clearly agitated" when she stormed out of court after the man was refused bail on September 30, 2019.
She drove straight to the home of the man's mother in central Albury.
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It was there the 30-year-old threatened her ex-partner's 14-year-old sister for making a statement that he had a firearm.
On pleading guilty in Albury Local Court on Tuesday to doing an act intending to pervert the course of justice, charges of threaten with intent to influence a witness to procure acquittal, intimidation and attempted intimidation were withdrawn
The court was told how the woman, who cannot be named, banged on the front door of the house, yelling "let me in".
The girl was inside, home alone.
Frightened by the woman's behaviour she phone her mother, who in turned called triple zero.
The woman then went around to the back of the house and began banging on a glass door.
She could see the girl inside so yelled: "Let me in, I won't hurt you."
The girl relented.
Once inside, the woman yelled at the girl about her ex-partner, the father of her three children, not getting bail.
"You don't know what it's like, the kids crying every morning and night for their dad," she said, in tears.
The woman became angry, but the girl said nothing because she was overwhelmed and scared.
While standing close to the girl in the kitchen, the woman said words to the effect of: "Go down to the police station and tell them that you lied in your statement."
She then threatened: "I will make it my life to kill, drown anyone who made a statement against (her ex-partner)."
The girl took this as a direct threat for her own statement to police, heightening her fear.
When police knocked on the front door, the woman told the girl: "Just stay back and say I'm allowed to be here."
She was confrontational with the officers, who asked to see the teenager.
When the girl came to the door, she was "crying and shaking" but adamant she wanted the police to take the woman away.
She was arrested and cautioned on attending Albury police station several weeks later.
Magistrate Richard Funston will sentence the woman on October 14.
