A woman and her boyfriend charged with killing six family members in a Christmas Eve massacre apologised to their victims before gunning them down, prosecutors said.

AN ESTRANGED daughter helped murder her parents, brother, sister-in-law and young niece and nephew in a Christmas Eve row, it emerged yesterday.

An estranged daughter helped murder her parents, brother, sister-in-law and young niece and nephew in a Christmas Eve row, it was alleged today.

A woman and her boyfriend are in custody today, suspected of shooting dead her parents and four other family members, including two small children, at a remote rural home.