A man accused of murder ambushed and repeatedly stabbed his uncle due to “disgust” over his second marriage to a close family member, a jury has been told.

Za’id Abdus Samad, 28, faced Queensland Supreme Court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the murder of Abdul Basith Mohammed.

Mohammed, a restaurant owner, was found dead in the backyard of his Kuraby home, on Brisbane’s southern outskirts, in the early hours of October 25, 2017.

Za’id Abdus Samad is standing trial accused of murdering his uncle. Credit: AAP

The 35-year-old had been stabbed five times and was lying face down and surrounded by blood on a concrete slab in a gap between his garden shed and his property’s boundary fence.

Mohammed’s wife called police after hearing screams when he went to investigate a loss of pow

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