Entwistle murder hearing starts

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The first few days of the hearing are expected to be taken up with legal arguments and jury selection.

Entwistle is charged with shooting dead his 27-year-old American wife Rachel and their nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose at their Hopkinton home in Massachusetts on January 20 2006.

Entwistle arrived at the Middlesex Superior Court behind the darkened windows of the middle vehicle of a three-car convoy. Two helicopters circled overhead as the convoy reversed into the court compound.

Up to 150 potential jurors will begin the selection process in front of judge Diane Kottmyer at the court in Woburn, Massachusetts, ahead of the trial, which is expected to last at least three weeks.

Entwistle, a 29-year-old former IT worker originally from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, denies two counts of murder and related gun charges - carrying a firearm without a licence and possession of a firearm without a federal ID card.

Prosecutors believe Entwistle shot and killed his wife and daughter in the house they were renting in Hopkinton before fleeing the US for his parents' home in Worksop the following morning.

He entered not guilty pleas at Framingham District Court in February 2006.

According to court papers, prosecutors believe Entwistle ran up debts of tens of thousands of pounds before the murders, his internet businesses had failed and he had no visible means of support.

He also allegedly searched the internet for information on how to kill people and commit suicide days before his wife and daughter were shot.