The trial of Robert Xie, accused of murdering five members of a Sydney family, has heard one victim was found partially naked and her face covered in blood.
Xie, 50, is accused of brutally murdering his brother-in-law Norman Lin, Lin's wife Lily, their sons Henry and Terry, and Lily's sister Irene at their North Epping home in Sydney in July, 2009.
The adults were killed in their beds and the children in their bedrooms.
Xie has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to each of the murder charges.
The crown's alleges that Xie, a former surgeon, crept into the family's home late at night, turned the power off and murdered the family with a hammer-like object.
Xie is accused of having resentment towards the adults in his family, but the defence says that he had no motive to harm them.
Senior Constable Robert Levins was one of the first officers to arrive at the alleged crime scene after responding to a triple-zero call of a woman screaming, "Someone is going to die".
Constable Levins told the court the female informant phoned back a short time later and said she thought her brother was dead inside his house.
Constable Levins said he then activated a code red, which he said meant he turned on his patrol car siren and the red flashing light on top of his car.
He said when he arrived at the Lins' Boundary Road home, Xie's wife, Kathy, who made the emergency calls, was outside.
Constable Levins said when police entered the house, one of the first bodies they found was that of a female naked from the waist up in the master bedroom.
He said the bottom half of the victim was under the bedclothes.
"Her face was covered in blood," he told the court.
Dog barked 'for hours' on night of alleged murders: neighbourThe court also heard evidence from neighbour Tracey Jones, who woke up on the night the Lins were allegedly murdered to attend to her daughter.
Ms Jones said she got up at midnight and again at 3am.
She said she heard a dog barking a lot that night and thought it was unusual.
"It was like incessant constant barking... It went on for hours," she said.
The witness said she also heard a "loud" vehicle with what may have been a "faulty muffler" drive away from the area at great speed some time during the night.
A former news agency employee also told the court that Mr Lin's parents were suspicious of the way Xie and his wife were running the news agency soon after the deaths.
The trial continues.
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