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POLICE have charged a family member with the high profile brutal killing of the Lin family in Epping in 2009.

Robert Xie, 47, the brother-in-law of Min Lin was arrested at his home in North Epping just after 9am.

Detectives with Strike Force Norburn took Xie to Parramatta Police Station and charged with five counts of murder.

Robert Xie chose not to appear in Parramatta Local Court when the charges were mentioned. He did not make an application for bail and it was formally refused by the magistrate.

The charges were adjourned to Central Local Court on July 1.

Yun Li "Lilly'' Lin, 43, her newsagent husband Min Lin, 45, their sons, and the boys' aunt, Lilly's sister Irene, were bludgeoned to death as they lay in their beds.

The investigations were launched following the discovery of the bodies inside their home on Boundary Rd at North Epping on the morning of Saturday 18 July 2009.

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Homicide Squad Commander, Detective Superintendent Peter Cotter said today: "This was a tragic incident and one of the largest single homicides in NSW history.

"The investigators have never given up, and today is testimony to their dedication, and the culmination of 2 years of intense investigation.''

Police this afternoon described Xie's arrest as a "very significant day'' for the Lin family and investigators, saying they now had ``sufficient evidence'' following a two year investigation that crossed international borders.

Homicide squad commander Detective Superintendent Peter Cotter said police would allege that Xie acted alone, bludgeoning the five family members to death with a still-unidentified weapon on July 18, 2009.

"When the opportunity presented itself, the accused took it,'' Mr Cotter said.

"Not long after he entered the house, five people lay dead.''

Police also allege that other people/ family members  may have been woken by the sounds of their parents being killed, possibly interacting with their uncle before he allegedly attacked them.

Mr Cotter said there was some evidence that two family members might have woken and there might have been some interaction between them and the accused.

Police allege the case is based on circumstantial evidence,  and forensic evidence from the hundreds of exhibits that had been examined.

Investigators had been focusing on Xie for "the best part of two years'', with an extensive five day search of his North Epping home last year and extensive surveillance.

Mr Cotter said another member of the Lin family,  was "surprised'' by the arrest

Xie's wife Kathy Lin is not expected to be charged in relation to the murders.

The highly-secretive NSW Crime Commission was also involved in the investigation.

Xie and his wife, Kathy, took over the running of the Lin's newsagency after the murders.

It was the couple who discovered the bodies.

Xie, who was born in Ghuanzhou, China, ran a buffet-style Chinese restaurant in Melbourne which he opened in December 2001.

In 2004, he was knocked back by the Migration Review Tribunal when he applied to bring over three chefs from China so he upgrade to an upmarket restaurant.

He has said that as a result, his restaurant folded, when he then moved to Sydney where he was unemployed before taking over the Lin family's newsagency.


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赚钱有很多方法，牟夺亲人家产就是丧心病狂了。

That's really sad. The only surviving member of the Xie's Family, the teen girl, has put her great trust on her Uncle Robert in the past two years. She lived with the accused and her wife Kathy, and criticized some media reports which allege that Robert was the "primet suspect" of the murder case. According to the reports today, she was "shocked and surprised" when she heard this news at her school today.

However, as no murder weapon has ever been recovered, this case was based "on a significant amount of circumstantial evidence". It depends on, from my personal point of view, whether the forensic evidence is convincing and whether the inference that the accused is the very murderer can be drawn beyond reasonable doubt.