SYDNEY: The trial began on Friday of a man accused of murdering five members of a Chinese-Australian family with a court hearing Robert Xie was motivated by bitterness when he bludgeoned them with "a hammer-like object".

Xie, 50, is charged with killing his Chinese-born brother-in-law Norman Lin, Lin's wife Lily, their sons Henry, 12, and Terry, 9, and Lily's sister Irene.

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