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Police footage of the violent crime scene where two members of the Lundy family were murdered depicted a normal family home with toys outside, a sock hanging from the clothesline and knick-knacks on the living room wall.

The Crown used the footage to show the lengths gone to by police to not contaminate the scene as they examined the Palmerston North house on August 30, 2000.

Mark Lundy, on trial in the High Court at Wellington, has denied murdering his wife and daughter in the early hours of that day.

He bowed his head and tightly squeezed his eyes closed as the jury was shown pixelated footage, taken on the afternoon of August 30, which showed the bodies of Christine Lundy, 38, and 7-year-old Amber.

Stepping plates were shown on the floors of the home.

Police photographer and senior crime officer David Andrews told the court that when he walked through the Karamea Cres house to film the footage he wore loose police overalls, gloves and booties.

He said he took care to only stand on the plates as he moved through the scene.

"I took care not to brush against the walls or anything."

During the crime scene investigation, Mr Andrews lifted a fingerprint that was on a swing set in the couple's conservatory.

Defence lawyer David Hislop suggested to Mr Andrews that the fingerprint had never been identified, but Mr Andrews could not remember if that was the case.

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