Former taxi driver Naji Fakhreddine, 68, is accused of murdering Bernd Lehmann inside his Sydney home.
A father-of-eight accused of bludgeoning a German national to death with a statuette after a sexual encounter was linked to the 15-year-old crime after a DNA database match tied him to the crime scene.
Opening the Crown case on Tuesday, prosecutor Sally Traynor said Fakhreddine attacked Lehmann after a sexual encounter and bludgeoned him numerous times to the head with the 2.7kg statuette. While she acknowledged the crown case was a circumstantial one, she urged jurors to consider the total weight of the evidence.
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