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An aunt of David Bain became tearful at his murder retrial while recalling a conversation in which he likened the deaths of his family to the holocaust film Schindler's List.
Bain is on trial in the High Court at Christchurch for the murder five members of his family in Dunedin in 1994.
Jan Clark looked after the accused at her house between the times of the killings and his arrest.
She said one night he became very distressed and was saying he should have run faster during his paper run.
He then started repeating the words "dead, dying, dying all around" and said "It's just like Schindler's List".
Clark fought back tears as she recalled this.
She also told the court Bain told her he had been wearing his mother's glasses in the lead-up to the deaths as his were at the optometrist's getting fixed.
Earlier, Robert Clark, an uncle of David Bain told how he became upset reading news coverage of the killings.
Robert Clark told the court that two days after the killings the accused asked for the Otago Daily Times newspaper. He recalled him saying "rubbish" as he was reading it, and then became upset, saying police had lied to him.
He was referring to the part of the article which said some of the family had been out of their beds when they died.
Robert Clark said Bain then went into a trance, with his eyes closed and head down, and was speaking about "black hands coming to get them".
Robert Clark told the court that David Bain was he was relaxed on his way into the police station, unaware he was about to be arrested.
The jury has also been told by the defence that a witness will say Margaret Bain, David's mother was worried her husband was so depressed, he would get a gun and shoot his family.
Bain has denied charges of murdering his parents, two sisters and his brother at their family home in Every Street, Dunedin, in June 1994. The trial is before Justice Graham Panckhurst and a jury.
