A MAN accused of dressing up as a woman and stabbing two brothers to death in their Sydney home closed his eyes and shook his head as he denied carrying out the killings.
At his trial in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday, Guiseppe Di Cianni said "no", when asked if he killed his former business associate Albert Frisoli in his Rozelle home in May 2009.
"Did you kill (Albert's brother) Mario Frisoli," his barrister Peter Bodor QC asked.
"Absolutely not," Di Cianni replied.
"Did you arrange for either or both to be killed?" Mr Bodor asked.
"Absolutely not."
Di Cianni, who has pleaded not guilty to the murders, told the jury that in the month before the brothers' deaths two court cases between Albert Frisoli and himself had collapsed.
In one of the cases, the court heard, Di Cianni had accused Albert Frisoli of forging signatures.
When asked how he felt after the case was dismissed, Di Cianni said, through an Italian interpreter: "I wasn't happy about it".
"But I accepted the result as the forensic expert did say that they believed that the signatures were not forged and the signature was in fact mine."
The court was told the relationship between the pair soured in the years after Di Cianni was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2000.
He said he became "suspicious" Albert Frisoli was keeping information, money or assets from him.
The court heard 2000 was also the year Di Cianni met co-accused Josephine Pintabona.
Pintabona, who has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the murders, began cleaning his offices and helping him with doctors' appointments.
Several months later, without the knowledge of Di Cianni's wife, their relationship became intimate.
The trial before acting Justice Robert Shallcross Hulme continues.
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