Sentence delay for ex-wife in Qld hit plot

A former flight attendant found guilty of arranging a hit on her ex-husband has had her sentencing adjourned for medical reasons.

Gold Coast woman Theresa Dalton, 67, was last month found guilty of having paid $20,000 to have Malcolm Stewart killed in early 2010, after their 24-year marriage broke down some three years earlier.

But her then-boyfriend Anthony Werner's old friend Matthew Neels, who Dalton hired to carry out the hit, fled with the cash.

At what was scheduled to be Dalton's sentencing hearing in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday, her barrister Greg McGuire asked for a four-week adjournment because she required medical assistance.

Mr McGuire did not explain what medical assistance she required in open court.

Prosecutors did not oppose his application for a four-week adjournment.

Justice Sue Brown adjourned the matter to May 7.