Gangland widow Judy Moran has been sentenced to 26 years in jail for the public murder of her brother-in-law, Des "Tuppence" Moran.

Given her ailing health, it is likely the matriarch of the Melbourne crime family will die in jail.

The 66-year-old stared straight ahead while Judge Lex Lasry sentenced her, although she appeared very conscious that reporters were watching for her reaction.

Upon hearing that she will serve a minimum of 21 years, Moran said from the dock: "Sir, you are wrong. I am innocent."

Des Moran was shot seven times at a cafe in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale in 2009.

Gunman Geoffrey "Nutts" Armour shot Des Moran on orders from Judy Moran.

Earlier today, Armour was sentenced to 26 years in jail for pulling the trigger.

In March, after seven days of deliberations, a jury found Judy Moran guilty of planning the "deliberate killing".

Judge Lasry called it an appalling murder, both in the way it was carried out and in its public nature.

He said she contracted the killings out of either retribution, hostility, financial retribution, or all of those reasons. He said she had shown no sign of remorse.

His Honour accepted that the deaths of two of her sons and two partners in the gangland wars had had a traumatic effect on her, which, he said, made it more difficult to understand why she would become involved in such a callous and public killing.

Moran was the getaway driver and she stashed the gun, a beanie, a wig, and a jacket worn by Armour in a hidden safe.

She was arrested after a police surveillance team watched her dump the getaway car.

Moran admitted she did not like Des Moran, who had once smashed a bottle over her head.

Hard time

So far, Moran's time at the Dame Phyllis Frost prison has not been easy.

She spent 19 hours in solitary confinement after a stoush with other inmates over suggestions she was given preferential treatment.

She drove her motorised wheelchair over a woman's foot and spat at other prisoners.

Geoffrey Armour is led into a prison van at the Supreme Court. ( Julian Smith )

The outburst led to Moran being moved from her prison cottage to a cell.

At the plea hearing before Judge Lex Lasry, Moran's counsel described her as "an old woman" who was in ailing health.

Her main medical concern is the delayed treatment for a hip condition.

She has already been warned by Corrections Victoria that her behaviour will determine where she is housed during her prison term.

Meanwhile, Justice Lasry has dismissed an application by prosecutors to seize money made from the sale of Judy Moran's Ascot Vale house.

Moran put the Ormond Road property on the market to pay for legal fees earlier this year.

It sold for more than $1 million.

Prosecutors argued the house was connected with the murder because the getaway car and murder weapon were found there.

Justice Lasry rejected the bid.

Michael Farrugia, a co-accused who turned key witness in the case, is serving a four-year sentence for manslaughter for his part in the murder.

Suzanne Kane, Armour's partner and a woman who Judy Moran treated like a daughter, was handed a two-year wholly-suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.