A “FRIGHTENED” and tearful Hannah Quinn, the 23-year-old woman charged over the alleged samurai sword murder of Aussie rapper Jett McKee in inner-city Sydney on Friday, has been granted bail.

Appearing over video link, Ms Quinn sobbed silently, gasped for oxygen and wrung her hands from Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre as a dramatic new account of the fatal Forest Lodge attack was given in Newtown Local Court.

Prominent Sydney barrister Tom Hughes, representing Ms Quinn, told the court that hip hop artist Mr McKee was a poker machine addict who had carried out a violent home invasion while wearing a balaclava before his alleged murder.

Mr Hughes told the court Mr McKee had threatened to shoot Ms Quinn and was armed with a replica gun.

It also emerged that Ms Quinn had been charged with a second offence: accessory after the fact of murder.

Ms Quinn’s mother, Megan Quinn, was present in court along with the accused’s two brothers and father.

Ms Quinn was charged with her boyfriend, actor and martial artist Blake Davis, 28, after a massive manhunt last weekend following the discovery of Mr McKee’s body lying in the street last Friday.

The 30-year-old hip hop artist known as Scepaz was found dead in an intersection with a massive head wound.

Mr Hughes said that on the morning of the alleged murder Mr McKee, who he said had borrowed money to pay off a $31,000 gambling debt at Sydney’s Star casino, had met up with a second man, who is known to police.

Wearing black clothing and gloves, and armed with pepper spray, the fake gun, knuckledusters and the balaclava, Mr McKee entered Mr Davis’s Forest Lodge home at 12.40pm, where Ms Quinn was staying, Mr Hughes told the court.

Ms Quinn, who had just returned from a shop with food and coffee, saw Mr McKee and said, “who the f*** are you?”, Mr Hughes alleged.

Police evidence showed neighbours overheard Mr Davis saying, “there’s no money here”.

Mr McKee then allegedly punched Mr Davis in the face with the knuckledusters and fled with a bag from the flat.

Ms Quinn then pursued Mr McKee down the street followed by Mr Davis armed with the samurai sword, police allege.

Police allege Ms Quinn pushed Mr McKee to the ground, but Mr Hughes said she tried to grab his jacket and he fell.

Mr Hughes alleged that Mr Davis then “swung the samurai sword downwards impacting on (Mr McKee’s) skull”.

He said it was in police facts that Ms Quinn then said, “What the f*** have you done?”

Mr Hughes claimed “this eradicates any preconcert” — the idea the killing was planned. Police, meanwhile, contend that the alleged murder was a joint criminal enterprise between the two accused.

Police will allege Ms Quinn and Mr Davis then escaped to a nearby alcove and hid.

Mr Hughes said Mr McKee staggered from the site where he was struck, then onto a garden, before finally stumbling to the road where he died.

Detectives later found mobile phones, a replica pistol and $21,000 in cash.

The accused couple then allegedly went home and changed and disposed of the alleged murder weapon.

But Mr Hughes said Ms Quinn feared she might be pursued by others because, he alleged, Mr McKee had threatened her saying, “there’s lots more people than me who will shoot you”.

Mr Hughes said that when the police manhunt for the pair was under way last weekend, Ms Quinn and Mr Davis had gone from “hotel to hotel” with the male accused going “in and out of consciousness”, concussed from the knuckleduster punch.

The accused handed themselves into police who charged them with murder.

Mr Davis was treated at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for a black eye and facial bruising and has been remanded in custody.

As Magistrate Margaret Quinn agreed to release Ms Quinn on strict conditions, the accused wept into the sleeves of her prison green sweatshirt.

Outside the court, the accused’s mother Megan Quinn thanked people “for keeping an open mind” and expressed her sympathy to Mr McKee’s family.

Mr Hughes said his client had been “terrified” by her first time in prison and was “delighted” to have been granted bail.

She will be released from Silverwater prison today.

Mr Davis has not applied for bail.

Both accused will next appear in court in October.