Convicted: Madelyn Capewell leaves court. Credit:Simone De Peak They agree on a time and location: 5pm at the parking lot of Morisset Pool. They negotiate on a price of between $250 and $300. She tells him to bring alcohol. He decides on a $27 bottle of Wild Turkey. But all is not what it seems. Brittany, the court heard on Friday, was in fact Capewell, then barely 18-years-old and under the influence of amphetamines and her "dominating" boyfriend, Jack Anthony Croucher.

On Friday, Judge Roy Ellis said Capewell had used "sexuality to lure this man to this location". "That's your level of criminality," he said. "You didn't participate much in the actual events that constituted taking the property, but he would never have been there and it could never have happened had you not proffered yourself to him in the way that you did." According to the facts, the victim arrived at the car park at 5pm, and a short time later two other men arrived, parking their car nearby. I think at the end of the day she is a good young lady who was immature, mis-guided, led down the garden path by the wrong kind of person.

Capewell, the court evidence shows, called the man and asked him to get out of the car and give her a hug. He did, but soon after the two men got out of the car and approached the victim. One of them was allegedly Croucher, who held a long steel pole and yelled "are you trying to pick up my girlfriend?". He then demanded money, and the victim handed over $290, an iPhone, and the bottle of Wild Turkey. When the victim refused to give his credit cards, Croucher allegedly used the pole to smash his car windscreen.

On Friday, Capewell, from Cooranbong, was convicted of one count of robbery in company, while her ex-partner, Croucher, from Bonnells Bay, had his case held over until December 3. He was previously committed to appear in the District Court for the armed robbery. The court heard that drugs, specifically amphetamines, played a "massive role" in the "very unhealthy relationship" between the two co-offenders. "We still may have been together if it wasn't for the episodes with the drug use which caused a lot of arguments and trouble in our relationship," Capewell told the court. "Sometimes Jack could be quite controlling." A pre-sentencing report noted Capewell had "felt no remorse" for her behaviour in the months immediately following the offence, and that she only began to regret her actions after her ex-partner was incarcerated on another matter.

Under examination on Friday she clarified to say that she "didn't realise the severeness of how serious" her actions were. "I know that what I done was wrong from the moment that I done it, she said. "But I didn't realise how severe it actually was until my partner had been locked up and it took a while for it to sink in." Judge Ellis accepted that claim and in declining to give a custodial sentence said that he had taken into account Capewell's young age, her prior clean record, her "excellent" prospects of rehabilitation indicated by no longer taking drugs and enrolling in a TAFE course, as well as being a "minor player" in the offence. "I think at the end of the day she is a good young lady who was immature, mis-guided, led down the garden path by the wrong kind of person, but who now has had hey eyes opened," he said.