GUILTY Australia - Five Lin family members murdered, North Epping, NSW, 18 July 2009

[Estelle]

Robert Xie will apply for bail after court case aborted for second time.

Details of Xie’s bail application are yet to be revealed, but he will likely argue the time he has spent behind bars awaiting trial amounts to “exceptional circumstances”.

See link for story:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-the-second-time/story-fni0cx12-1227072419185

We will learn the outcome of his bail application on October 8. IMO he is a threat to the living members of the Lin family and should not be given bail.

 

[Estelle]

No media reports on the result of Xie's bail application on October 8 yet.

 

[sleepinoz]

http://www.news.com.au/national/bre...sed-refused-bail/story-e6frfku9-1227088612219

Lin murder accused refused bail

 

[Estelle]

ACCUSED murderer Lian Bin ‘Robert’ Xie will face his third trial for the killings of five members of his family next year.

Xie is accused of killing his brother-in-law Min Lin, Mr Lin’s wife Lily Lin, their young sons Henry and Terry, and Lily’s sister, Irene Lin in North Epping in the early hours of July 18, 2009. Xie’s new trial will begin on February 2 before Justice Elizabeth Fullerton.

The trial is expected to last six months.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ng-of-lin-family/story-fni0cx12-1227078847174

 

[Chelly]

Feb 4, 2015
Jury Selected in Xie Trial
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/02/04/16/45/jury-selected-in-xie-trial

Trial is expected to start Thursday, will take six months

 

[Chelly]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-05/intense-hatred-behind-lin-family-murders-court-told/6073278

Feb 5, 2015
Intense Hatred Behind Lin Family Murders Court Told

The trial of a man accused of murdering five members of his extended family has been told it was a crime of "intense bitterness and hatred".

Robert Xie has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Sydney to murdering his newsagent brother-in-law Norman "Min" Lin, Mr Lin's wife Lily, their two young boys, and Lily's sister Irene in their North Epping home in 2009.

The court was told the five victims were brutally bashed some time between midnight and 5:00am with a hammer-like object prepared by the killer.

Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi told the 15 jurors that four of the five victims were also asphyxiated and they were killed in order of the level of resistance they posed, starting with Mr and Mrs Lin, followed by Irene.

"The assailant repeatedly damaged the faces of the three adults in the house and the motive for these crimes was intense bitterness and hatred," Mr Tedeschi said.

Mr Tedeschi said the two boys were then killed after a "violent struggle".........(see link above for full story)

 

[PrimeSuspect]

THE Lin family matriarch has broken down in the stand at Robert Xie's murder trial, saying she is upset by the continued mention of her son, the slain newsagent Min Lin.
The Supreme Court trial took an early lunch adjournment, with Justice Elizabeth Fullerton urging Feng Qing Zhu to “sit quietly” and ”calmly focus”.
It is the third time Mrs Zhu has given evidence at Xie's trial, after the two previous juries hearing the evidence were discharged.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...al-of-robert-xie/story-fni0cx12-1227246355097


This poor woman, going through this court process 3 times already!!! Her son and his family were annihilated by a bitter twisted brother in law, who abused his niece after killing her whole family!! Mrs Zhu is a strong lady, I would be cracking under the strain for sure!

And Xie's counsel asking about money Mrs Zhu paid to a relative in China, implying the money came from Min Lin, her son??!

What the h*ll does that have to do with Xie murdering them?! Why is Mrs Zhu being treated like a criminal? So what if she gave money to a relative, and so what if it came from her son?!! :banghead:

 

[Chelly]

This is one odd case!

 

[Estelle]

Shortly before Robert Xie allegedly murdered five people, a young woman told her friend he had inappropriately touched her, a court has heard.

The subject came "completely out of the blue" while the two women were lying down and talking in a tent during a camping trip in the Illawara region, the NSW Supreme Court heard on Monday.

The friend gave evidence that about two years earlier she had told the woman that she had been sexually abused.

And the woman then revealed that "something similar" had happened to her.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/woman-tol...-touched-her-court-hears-20150316-1m09fo.html

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Lin family bodies were moved after brutal murders says forensics expert in Robert Xie trial


Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...n-robert-xie-murder-trial#KmUJlQjYBdFu2CTg.99

 

[Estelle]

There seems to be little media coverage of this trial. Why is that?

 

[Estelle]

Is this trial still going on? Is it behind closed doors now?

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Wife of accused murderer Robert Xie appears at Lin family trial

"Did Robert think that they (Ms Lin's parents) favoured Min and Lily over you and Robert?" Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC asked Ms Lin.
"No," she replied.
Ms Lin was unable to continue giving evidence today as she has lost her voice.
The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...s-wife-testifies-at-trial#tydLw4xQYWhYqxtM.99

This is the third trial for Robert Xie after the first 2 were cut short, it must be the longest trial in Australian history! :thinking:

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Oh I was just thinking about this trial this morning, wondering if it was still happening .. didn't know it was actually running at the moment .. thanks Prime!

ETA I see it's been adjourned AGAIN!!! WTF :facepalm:

 

[Estelle]

Oh I was just thinking about this trial this morning, wondering if it was still happening .. didn't know it was actually running at the moment .. thanks Prime!

ETA I see it's been adjourned AGAIN!!! WTF :facepalm:

It is supposed to continue Tuesday but only I guess if Ms Lin regains her voice.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/families-...f-her-husband-robert-xie-20150518-gh45fx.html

 

[Estelle]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/families-...f-her-husband-robert-xie-20150518-gh45fx.html

I do not think this has been posted here.

Blood stain found on Robert Xie's garage floor.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Can't we just throw him in jail for life already?

 

[Estelle]

Can't we just throw him in jail for life already?

Yes why not? The Prosecutor said he is halfway through.

Ms Lin seems to be protecting her husband by saying they had a close family relationship or did Robert Xie never tell her how he felt? Then his seething resentment he had felt for the last four years exploded and when his favourite niece was away, he took his opportunity thinking he could get away with it and then she could live with them (which she did). So because he was not suspected, in the beginning, he had held up this facade of the close family relationship for the for the four years.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Robert Xie’s wife Kathy Lin breaks down in court as she tells of the ‘horrible scene’ on finding relatives bodies

Ms Lin, who took the witness stand at his trial today, described walking into upstairs bedrooms of the North Epping home with her husband on the morning July 18, 2009.
“I saw the blood on the wall, I saw my sister-in-law’s body,” she told the jury.
“I saw the two boys ...”
She said her husband put his arm around her.

Ms Lin told the court yesterday that her husband was sleeping next to her on the night of the murders and rejected claims that she was sedated by him on the night.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...relatives-bodies/story-fni0cx12-1227363058529

No mention yet of the call made to 000 which police believe was Ms Lin, she said a murder was going to be committed. :thinking:

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Xie 'shocked' at discovering bodies

Accused murderer Robert Xie told police he was "shocked" at seeing the Lin family's bodies with his wife and can't remember if he touched some of them.
The crown alleges Xie was driven by intense bitterness and hatred when he crept into the North Epping home in Sydney's northwest in the hours before the grisly discovery and brutally murdered the five family members.
When he later went to the scene with his wife, the crown says Xie didn't render any assistance to the bodies because he knew they were dead.
Xie denies the allegations.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...es-in-family-murder-trial#SzP8IWhrV8bX92Ts.99