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Police warned the Kahui twins' aunt she might be accused of being part of a conspiracy making up stories for her sister, a court heard today.
Emily King is giving evidence in the High Court trial of Chris Kahui, who is accused of murdering his three-month old sons in June 2006.
She was with the twins' mother, Macsyna King, the night the babies were believed to have been assaulted. Macsyna King has been named in court as the likely killer by Kahui's defence lawyers, an accusation she rejects.
The defence earlier claimed cellphone records showed Emily King was in Mangere, where the babies were sleeping, on June 12, 2006 even though Ms King had said she and her sister were nowhere near the suburb that night and had driven to visit a friend in New Lynn.
Emily King was re-interviewed by police after Macsyna gave evidence in the trial, during which she was accused of secretly returning to the house.
Asked by Crown prosecutor Richard Marchant what police said to her, Emily King said an officer told her about suggestions she was involved in a conspiracy and that she was making up stories for her sister.
When Emily King was first interviewed when the homicide inquiry began she said she couldn't recall the route she drove from Papakura to New Lynn.
But after driving with a detective this month, she now says she remembers the exact way they drove and that she returned to south Auckland to change vehicles.
Mr Marchant: "Why is it you couldn't remember [the route] ages ago but you could remember a few weeks ago? "I didn't think it was important," she said.
Ms King told the court she couldn't explain why her cellphone records showed her in Mangere and that she only remembered receiving one call, from her husband.
She said she was asked to "think hard" about the route she drove that night and started to remember things only after she drove the route with an officer.
Earlier today, Emily King said she had not spent a lot of time with her sister until her own daughter Ellen was born, about the same time as Chris and Cru.
Macsyna was a protective mother and very attentive, while Kahui was good with his one-year-old son Shane and was very careful with the twins, she said.
Ms King said she saw her sister changing the twins and looking after them.
"She was specific about their sheets being cotton, their bottles being sterilised, the measurements were exact to the mil."
If the twins were unwell "before I knew it she would be off to the hospital or the doctor".
Her sister was also very house proud, she said.
The trial continues.
- With NZPA
