A PREGNANT woman has been charged with the shooting murder of Bankstown lawyer Ho Ledinh.

Mr Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza on January 23, in front of horrified witnesses.

Analosa Ah Keni, a pregnant mother of four children, appeared before Burwood Local Court on Wednesday, having been charged with murder earlier this month, police say.

Ah Keni, from Liverpool, was arrested on the Hume Highway at Marulan on March 8 and taken to Goulburn Police Station before being charged with murder.

According to 9 News, police are alleging Ms Ah Keni conducted surveillance on Mr Ledinh, driving past him at the cafe less than an hour before he was killed.

She is also accused of being there when the killer was given a bottle of water and a green jacket before the shooting. He was seen in a green jacket in CCTV that was released in the days following the execution.

Ms Ah Keni is four months pregnant and is currently being treated in a prison clinic for complications, the court was told yesterday. No application for bail was made and she will reappear in court next week.

Ah Keni’s arrest came three weeks after Arthur Kelekolio, 38, was arrested at Sydney International Airport before he could board a flight to Bali. Kelekolio was also charged with Mr Ledinh’s murder and faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on February 14.

His lawyer, Adam Houda, didn’t apply for bail for Kelekolio and it was formally refused by magistrate Les Mabbutt.

The matter was adjourned to April 11.

Police nabbed Kelekolio after his passport reportedly triggered an alert at the airport.

Following the targeted attack, officers said they would be looking into Mr Ledinh’s organised crime clients as part of their investigation, with the Homicide Squad setting up Strike Force Eugene to investigate the shooting. The father-of-five was one of the solicitors who represented Philip Nguyen, the man jailed over the killing of Sydney police constable Bill Crews in 2010.