A court has heard how the case against accused murderer "Robert" Xie has been driven by a criminal. Source: AAP
IN the hours before schoolboy Henry Lin was brutally murdered in his Sydney home, he was chatting online to a friend about badminton, a court has heard.
The 12-year-old - along with nine-year-old brother Terry, parents Min Lin, 45 and Lily, 44, and aunt Irene, 39 - were killed in their Epping home in Sydney's northwest in July 2009.
The crown says Henry's uncle Lian Bin "Robert" Xie carried out the killings in the early hours of July 18, 2009.
The family's time of death, however, remains in dispute.
On Tuesday, Xie's trial heard from a former schoolgirl who regularly chatted with Henry online about his obsession with badminton and his dreams to one day represent Australia in the sport.
She said that on July 17, just before 6pm, Henry told her he was going to his grandparents' home for the regular family Friday night dinner.
By 6.03pm, his online status noted he was "away".
Then at 10.23pm, the girl said she again chatted with Henry, this time about a badminton game on YouTube before telling him she was going to bed about 11.26pm.
"You said, 'Good night', and he said, 'Bye ... good night'?" crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC asked.
"Yes," the girl replied.
The crown has previously told the court Henry and his brother Terry put up a "furious" struggle when they were beaten with a "hammer-like object" and asphyxiated in the bedroom they shared.
Henry is thought to have survived for up to 30 minutes after the attack, while Terry lived for up to two hours.
While the crown says Xie was "motivated by bitterness" to carry out the killings, the defence say he is innocent and more than one person committed the murders.
Xie's barrister, Graham Turnbull SC, on Tuesday finished his opening address to the Supreme Court jury, in which he attacked the credibility of a key aspect of the crown case - the evidence of prison informer "Witness A".
The crown says that after Xie was charged with the murders in 2010 and taken to Long Bay prison, he befriended the inmate and made a number of "concessions", including that he bought a hammer from a two-dollar store.
Mr Turnbull said Witness A was a practised informer and ruthless criminal who saw Xie as an opportunity to reduce his own jail time.
None of the conversations regarding buying a hammer, the sedation of his wife or his alleged motivation, was recorded.
"At the end of the day, the police case, it will be submitted ... was being run by Witness A. He fills in the gaps."
The trial continues.
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