The former partner of siege gunman Man Haron Monis told a court in 2012 of his increasingly paranoid behaviour and how he was "taking a lot more time out for his Islamic activities".
She said he also threatened that if she didn't give him what he wanted she was "going to pay, even if I have to shoot you".
More than a year before Noleen Hayson Pal was allegedly stabbed and set alight in April 2013 at the urging of Monis, court documents reveal that the then 30-year-old had tried to get an AVO out on him.
At a local court hearing in 2012, in which Monis was also accused of stalking and intimidating her, Ms Pal spoke of the self-proclaimed sheik's shooting threat.
Monis had revealed to police he had a firearm licence while working as a security officer but it had expired.
Ms Pal said they sparked up a relationship in 2003 after she answered an advertisement for his "psychic work".
By 2011 she officially ended the defacto relationship, telling him to collect his things and move out of her family home.
"He was taking a lot more time out for his Islamic activities as well and because of that he wasn't hardly coming home," she told the court.
She said he was also "very paranoid about things".
"As soon as he walks into the house the doors have to be closed; the blinds have been drawn up; we can't go outside the house. He is always saying to me that people are watching; people are hearing our conversations."
Two days after she asked him to move out of her home in July 2011, she met him at McDonalds at Green Valley in Sydney's west.
She took her parents along as she feared for her safety.
After a heated discussion in which Monis pressured her to move out with him and she refused, Ms Pal said he threatened that if she didn't give him what he wanted she was "going to pay, even if I have to shoot you".
The stalking and intimidation charge and Ms Pal's application for an AVO were dismissed in May that year with Monis found not guilty.
More than a year later Monis' new partner Amirah Droudis was charged with Ms Pal's murder and Monis was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to murder.
Both were granted bail over the offences after a three-hour hearing in December 2013.
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