Lindstrom and her fiance Steven Wayne Spaliviero, 44, lived together at Pyrmont in inner Sydney. 

They were each charged with two counts of conspiring to murder the witnesses as well as two counts of soliciting murder.

An alleged Sydney amphetamine manufacturer, Spaliviero is in custody after being arrested in October 2006.

The former luxury car dealer is charged with manufacturing drugs worth millions of dollars.

In the bail application in Sydney's Central Local Court, Lindstrom's Victorian lawyer Stephen Shirrefs SC described her as vulnerable and "easily swayed".

He said the Swedish ambassador was in court to support her - as was her mother, who had flown in from Sweden earlier in the week.

Anita Hall-Lindstrom told Magistrate Alan Moore her daughter had never been in trouble before but had suffered from anorexia, was vulnerable, trusting and very loyal.

If granted bail, Ms Hall-Lindstrom was prepared to stay in Sydney with her daughter to ensure she kept all her bail conditions.

The magistrate also was told the mother of Lindstrom's fiance was prepared to act as surety for $2 million bail for her.

The police facts sheet said Lindstrom met the undercover officer on May 25 and May 26.

During the second meeting, she allegedly confirmed he would be paid $100,000 per person and that she would make the payment.

In the first meeting, the officer asked if Lindstrom wanted the witnesses "in hospital or in the cemetery".

"Lindstrom stated: 'cemetery'," the facts sheet said.

But Mr Shirrefs told the magistrate the transcript revealed her talking about what Spaliviero wanted - not what she wanted.

Describing her as "the messenger", the lawyer referred to times when she told the officer she did not want to be involved or "know about it".

She had been engaged to Spaliviero for the last two years.

"She is still engaged, despite all this," Mr Shirrefs said.

The police sheet said Lindstrom had handed an envelope to the undercover officer at their first meeting.

"The document had handwritten notes about the victims, including physical descriptions, motor vehicles used and had circled two persons (in a group photograph)," the facts said.

In her evidence, Lindstrom's mother said she was very close to her daughter and spoke to her on the phone nearly every day.

But under questioning from Steven Higgins, representing the DPP, she said she only found out last week about Spaliviero having been in custody since last October for manufacturing drugs.

"She was wanting to protect us," she said.

Ms Lindstrom's boss Justin Hemmes' name was also mentioned at the hearing, with Mr Shirrefs tendering an affidavit which the court heard indicated Lindstrom had worked "diligently" and he was prepared to keep her on if she was given bail.

In opposing bail, Mr Higgins told the magistrate the evidence pointed to a "very strong prosecution case".

"Your Honour would have to see the defendant was - if not, the moving factor, party principal - very, very much involved in the commission of this offence," he said.

The maximum penalty for the offence is 25 years jail and the standard non-parole period is 10 years.

Mr Higgins also said the evidence did not point to Lindstrom having strong community ties in Sydney.

In refusing bail, the magistrate said he did not dispute that Lindstrom's mother was a person of good character, nor did he dispute her daughter had suffered from anorexia.

But the allegations involved a "most serious matter" and he referred to the need to protect the two Crown witnesses.

On June 18, 2007, Lindstrom made another attempt at bail.

The applicant's barrister told the court an undercover police officer drew her further into a plot to murder the two witnesses.

Clive Steirn SC said the officer, who was posing as a hitman, had already been contracted to murder the two men when he met Lindstrom at Sydney's Town Hall on May 25.

Mr Steirn told Justice Peter Hidden that Lindstrom was acting under instructions when she met the officer and arrived with a sealed envelope.

He said the officer, knowing they were being secretly recorded, asked the 22-year-old leading questions to draw her into the plot.

"The undercover agent has been instructed to involve her ... in an offence of which she was reluctant to take part in," Mr Steirn told the court.

"(He) is leading her on and escalating her criminality by putting leading questions to her.

"There could be no doubt that she knows her partner wants to at least eliminate two witnesses, but knowing and soliciting are something totally different."

A police fact sheet tendered during an earlier bail application said Lindstrom met the undercover officer at the same location on May 25 and May 26.

During the second meeting, she allegedly confirmed he would be paid $100,000 per person and that she would make the payment.

In the first meeting, the officer asked if Lindstrom wanted the witnesses "in hospital or in the cemetery".

"Lindstrom stated: 'Cemetery'," the facts sheet said.

In addition, she allegedly handed the officer a sealed envelope with notes about the victims, including descriptions, motor vehicles used and photographs.

Mr Steirn told the court that a conversation in which Lindstrom allegedly told her fiance that she did not want to be involved was not included in the fact sheet.

Crown prosecutor Steve Higgins said that although Lindstrom may have been a reluctant participant, she was a participant.

He said her apparent unwillingness did not alter the meaning of what she was agreeing to.

In rejecting her application in the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Peter Hidden noted Ms Lindstrom's lack of community ties and the seriousness of the charges.

"Not only do they involve an alleged plot to kill two men, they allege a serious assault on the administration of justice," he said.

"In the event of conviction, she is likely to face a considerable custodial sentence."

Justice Hidden referred to the incentive for Lindstrom to flee the country if granted bail, noting she faced a substantial custodial sentence if convicted.

"... taking the material I have at face value, it suggests that she might have access to substantial sums of money through the associates of Mr Spaliviero," he said.

"It is also of concern that her only real connection to this country is her relationship with Mr Spaliviero and that relationship endures."

Ms Lindstrom declared in an affidavit she still intended to marry Mr Spaliviero.

On the material before him, the crown case was "not weak".

He said "very substantial security" was available if Lindstrom were granted bail, but unfortunately the source was the mother of Mr Spaliviero.

It was "regrettable" that someone associated with Lindstrom's co-defendant was the only source of available security, he said.

"I do not intend to reflect on Mrs Spaliviero, who gave evidence and impressed as a responsible citizen," he added.

He noted Lindstrom's mother had come to Sydney from Sweden to support her daughter, who was only 23 and had no criminal record.

"It is distressing to see one so young in custody in circumstances such as this," the judge said.

"The premises where she was living are, in fact, the subject of a restraining order arising from other charges against Mr Spaliviero in Victoria.

"I have heard evidence she is suffering from depression and anorexia and that is a matter of concern."

The judge said Lindstrom's matter was unlikely to come to trial until early next year and delay was a matter to be considered by him.

He stressed if there were "a significant departure" from the timetable, Lindstrom could make another bail application.

A committal hearing in Central Local Court heard DNA evidence gleaned from a size 9 Louis Vuitton shoe found at the Riverstone factory in 2005 matched that of the stocky 42-year-old.

DPP solicitor Steve Higgins told the court the DNA match had a probability of 10 billion to one.

The court also heard a second man police say they identified as being involved, Jeff Klower, has so far eluded investigators and is now an international fugitive.

The court was told police raided Spaliviero's Pyrmont unit on October 20, 2006, and six days later charged him with knowingly taking part in the manufacture of a prohibited drug.

Spaliviero's arrest came almost a year after fire brigade officers stumbled upon the illicit drug factory when neighbours called triple-0 to report smoke billowing from the premises.

Drug Squad Detective Senior Constable Amanda Hancock told the court police believe Spaliviero also made a call to triple-0 that day.

She said the purpose of this call was to "try and divert the fire brigade away from (the premises)".

Sitting in the dock, Spaliviero was well dressed in a grey jacket, faded black jeans, trainers and a white collared shirt with French cuffs.

He followed much of the proceedings through his own copy of the police brief, spread out in front of him in the dock.

Spaliviero spent much of the hearing writing copious notes, some of which he passed to his solicitor Nick Felton.

His mother, Delores, spent the day watching on and approached her son at the dock during one break, when he took her hand and kissed it before being led away by Corrective Services officers.

Much of the hearing centred on police procedures in gathering evidence at crime scenes.

Defence senior counsel, Stephen Shirrefs, said police did not have a single witness who could identify Spaliviero as being at the factory on the night of the fire.

He also questioned why the Drug Squad had allowed certain evidence, mainly heavy laboratory-type equipment found at the scene, to be destroyed before the trial.

Constable Hancock said the decision had been made by her superiors in line with police policy in dealing with dangerous goods.

A court heard she is unlikely to face a preliminary hearing with her three accused due to changes in her case.

Ms Lindstrom's solicitor, Phillip Stewart, told the Central Local Court his client, who is in custody, was unlikely to appear with the three men.

Spaliviero, Basic and Selim, who are in custody, are expected to face a four-day preliminary hearing starting on December 10 without her.

Magistrate Ian Barnett adjourned Ms Lindstrom's matter to October 16 while awaiting further submissions from the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.

Outside court, Mr Stewart confirmed the charges against Ms Lindstrom were being reviewed by the DPP's office.

"If anything develops that's up to them," he said.

Ms Lindstrom, who did not appear in court, remains in Sydney's Mulawa Women's Prison.

But Lindstrom pleaded guilty to just one count of soliciting to murder.

Her lawyer, Philip Stewart, said the plea was the result of discussions with the DPP.

She will have served nine months by her expected February 2008 sentence date.

Lindstrom would also give evidence against Mr Spaliviero and other co-accused, Mr Stewart said.

This, along with her strict protective custody conditions, would be taken into account in sentencing, he said.

Lindstrom, who appeared via video-link, said "thank you" as magistrate Allan Moore committed her to the NSW Supreme Court to affirm her plea the following day.