Man charged with murder after family of five killed

A man appeared in an Australian court yesterday charged with the stabbing murders of three young girls, their mother and grandmother, whose bodies were found in a Perth home a week after their deaths.

Anthony Harvey, 24, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court via video link.

The bodies of his wife, Mara Lee Harvey, 41, her daughter Charlotte, three, two-year-old twin sisters Alice and Beatrix, and their grandmother Beverley Quinn, were found at the home in the suburb of Bedford on Sunday after Anthony Harvey alerted police in Karratha.

He was charged with murdering Quinn when she visited the house on September 4, the day after the other four had died. Each murder charge carries a potential life prison sentence.