TRANSGENDER accused axe killer Evie Amati is “being held in male jail” without transition medication or psychiatric care and should be released, her lawyers have argued.

Her hair long and blonde and her face covered in make-up, Ms Amati beamed into the NSW Supreme Court via video link on Thursday from Cessnock prison.

A barrister for Ms Amati, who faces charges including attempt to wound with intent to murder, said she was “presently detained in Cessnock male jail”.

Greg James QC said Ms Amati is being held in the NSW Hunter Valley maximum security prison among male inmates.

Mr James said Ms Amati was “not receiving transitional medication or psychiatric treatment”, and would be no threat back in the community.

However, news.com.au has learnt that Amati is being held in the women’s section of Cessnock and may be receiving prescription medication.

Police allege Ms Amati is the woman who strolled into a suburban Sydney 7-Eleven with an axe early on January 7 this year and carried out the attack caught in a terrifying video.

The video, obtained exclusively by news.com.au, shows a woman swing a long-handled axe down on two customers buying milk and a pie at around 2.20am in Enmore 7-Eleven.

Ms Amati was recently transferred from Silverwater Women’s maximum security correctional centre in Sydney to Cessnock.

Mr James told a brief bail application hearing before NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Campbell that Ms Amati had been psychiatrically assessed following the alleged attack.

He told Justice Campbell that one forensic psychiatrist and crown prosecutors had said that drugs and “a so-called homicidal/suicidal ideation” were not behind the alleged attack.

But he would argue for Ms Amati’s release based on a mental health issue and the conditions she was being held in “as regards to her mental state”.

“It is a most serious matter, (but) this lady is not unsafe to go back into the community,” Mr James said.

“There’s no treatment available and she’s getting no medication [in Cessnock prison].

“I am making inquiries as to the lawfulness of her being detained in Cessnock.”

In a previous court appearance, a lawyer for Ms Amati’s lawyer said she suffered from psychosis which told her to kill.

Charles Waterstreet said Ms Amati was on “a large amount” of antidepressants, hormonal drugs and another drug given to her “by a third person” at the time of the alleged attack.

Police initially charged the former union employee with two counts of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm in the alleged attack.

But the charges were upgraded and Ms Amati stands charged with attempting to cause wounding with intent to murder a third alleged victim.

Ms Amati’s five charges include two of cause wounding or grievous bodily harm with intent to murder Sharon Hacker and Benjamin Rimmer.

Ms Hacker and Mr Rimmer were the two customers in the 7-Eleven in the early hours of January 7 when the attack took place.

CCTV footage shows the bloody rampage second by second as it takes place inside the shop on a busy suburban road about 2.20am.

Mr Rimmer was buying a pie after a night out when he was attacked with axe blows to his head.

Ms Hacker, who had just paid for milk at the shop’s cash register, was attacked as she was leaving.

Ms Amati also faces the original charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm against Mr Rimmer and causing grievous bodily harm with intent against Ms Hacker.