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Cheryl Goodenough

Three admit Qld woman's manslaughter

Debbie Marie Combarngo died in a frenzied attack carried out by her cousins and two family friends. (AAP)

Three people have admitted they were involved in beating and stabbing a Queensland woman to death.

Debbie Marie Combarngo, 37, died in a frenzied attack carried out by her cousins and two family friends at a home in Wilsonton, Toowoomba, in May 2018.

She was beaten with a golf club, pipe and hammer leaving injuries including a 23cm wound to the left side of her chest that caused catastrophic injuries.

Ms Combarngo's daughter Claudia, who was pregnant at the time, and her partner, Tristan Gary Hooper, were also injured in the attack.

The accused - dubbed the Wilsonton Nine - fled in a maxi taxi and were caught at a Dan Murphy's bottle shop drive-through.

Shiralee Fernando, Rhonda Ann Hall and Rhianna Jade Fing are being sentenced in the Toowoomba Supreme Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Their co-accused - Ty Peter Fing, Christine Maree Hall, Ashley Aaron Fing, Jana Leigh Hall, Joshua James Lingwoodock and Lynn Faye Jean Anderson - were sentenced to jail in October, but all ordered to be eligible for immediate parole.

The court heard earlier the family dispute erupted after the accidental drug overdose of Michael Hall, who had been living with his cousin Ms Combarngo at the time of his death in April that year.

Two days before his funeral, family members sent messages to Claudia on social media demanding she and her mother "speak up" about Mr Hall's death "because s*** is about to get really ugly".

Nine people travelled to the Wilsonton home about 2pm on May 6 where the assault took place, and Ms Combarngo was stabbed.

"Blood was spurting and pouring from her chest, Claudia held a cloth over her mother's chest but was unable to stem the flow of blood," prosecutor Mark Green told the court during earlier proceedings.

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