Lavington mum told associate she would pay to have sibling 'touched-up'

Jessie Sue Cruickshank's offending was detected when she took her gripe to a woman who was under covert police surveillance for drug-dealing.

Cruickshank told the woman on June 20 that she wanted her brother to be attacked for his assault on her earlier the same day.

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"Look, I'll pay to have this c--- touched-up," she said.

In response, the other woman said she would contact a man she knew, then they discussed her own assault.

Eventually, after several people were asked if they would carry out the attack, Cruickshank's brother was targeted by two men and a woman who burst into his home that night.

He was struck to the head, then punched several times.

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Defence lawyer Jaimee Simonsen asked Albury Local Court magistrate Richard Funston to impose a community corrections order, without supervision.

"She was horrified (the assault by her brother) happened in front of the children."

Cruickshank, 29, pleaded guilty to a single charge of recruit other person to assist in carrying out a criminal activity, namely an assault.

The court was told Cruickshank argued with her brother at their mother's Albury home over the use of her car and suffered minor injuries from his attack.

Cruickshank went to the other woman's Koonawarra Street, North Albury, home about 11.45am.

The house was under surveillance over the woman's suspected involvement in drug supply, her organising of assaults and her connection to aggravated break and enters.

Just after 8.35pm, the woman sent a Facebook message to a person she wanted to commit the assault on the brother to say he could be found at a house in Swan Street.

The attack happened between 9.11pm and 9.27pm.

Mr Funston placed Cruickshank on a nine-month community corrections order, without supervision.

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