An Adelaide woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law, in an incident allegedly documented on a smartwatch, will be released on home detention bail.
Caroline Dela Rose Nilsson is accused of beating her mother-in-law Myrna Nilsson to death before staging a home invasion at their Valley View home in 2016.
Family and friends hugged and cried outside court after Justice Chris Bleby agreed to grant home detention bail to Ms Nilsson, with strict monitoring conditions.
Justice Bleby said it was unusual to grant bail to someone charged with murder but that Ms Nilsson had already spent an "extremely long time time in jail".
Ms Nilsson has been in custody for more than two-and-a-half years, including during a Supreme Court which ended when a jury failed to reach a verdict after five days of deliberations in October.
Her retrial will start in August next year.
"She is facing another eight to nine months before the next trial starts," Justice Bleby said.
"That means by the time of the trial she will have spent three-and-a-half years in jail."
Police have alleged that data on the victim's smartwatch contradicted Ms Nilsson's account of what happened on the night her mother-in-law died.
Prosecutors opposed bail, claiming Ms Nilsson could be a flight risk given all her extended family live in the Philippines and that she has limited connections in Australia.
"Home detention doesn't provide the same level of restriction that being in custody does," prosecutor Melissa Wilkinson told the Supreme Court.
"She's not physically prevented from leaving the premises … for eight months and the duration of the trial.
"There will be a constant opportunity to leave the premises and constant motive to leave the premises and if she leaves, she has a head start on authorities.
"The fact that the accused has reported … that she finds prison stressful and misses her family and she becomes upset — that is not a reason to grant bail.
"It's obvious prison is stressful."
But Justice Bleby said while he accepted there was a degree of risk, he did not think it was a high enough to refuse bail.
The court heard Ms Nilsson did not have a current passport and will have to surrender any expired passports as part of her bail agreement.
