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Man Found Guilty of Murdering Mum and Daughter 2, Before Burying Bodies Under Floor

Andrew Innes, 52, was found guilty by a jury of murdering Bennylyn Burke, 25, and two-year-old Jellica Burke after a five-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh

BBC 9 FEB 2023

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Andrew Innes arriving at Edinburgh High Court

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Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her two-year-old daughter, Jellica

A man found guilty of murdering a woman and her two-year-old daughter before burying them under his kitchen floor has been told he must serve at least 36 years behind bars.

Andrew Innes, 52, was found guilty by a jury of murdering Bennylyn Burke, 25, and Jellica Burke after a five-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

It was also found he sexually abused the toddler and raped another child at his address between February 20 and March 5 2021.

Innes told the trial he was "apocalyptically angry" when he struck Ms Burke with a hammer and stabbed her on February 23 and around two to three days later killed the toddler.

He had denied all charges against him and lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility, but the jury dismissed it and Judge Lord Beckett sentenced him to life, with a minimum of 36 years. .

Innes repeatedly hit the woman on the back of the head with a hammer, then stabbed her with a samurai sword.

The toddler died of asphyxiation.

The judge had instructed the jury to return guilty verdicts on both murder charges, following the medical evidence heard on Innes' state of mind at the time.

During the trial, the jury witnessed some of the most harrowing evidence to come before a Scottish court.

Innes admitted killing Ms Burke and Jellica but denied murdering them and on his arrest, when he asked where Ms Burke was, Innes told Pc Gavin Burns: "She's under the kitchen floor."

Jellica Burke and her mum were reported missing on March 1, 2021

Of the two-year-old's whereabouts, he told Dc Hardie: "Under the floor with mum. I couldn't look after a child. The child was screaming."

Innes had claimed Ms Burke lunged at him with a sushi knife and that killing her was an act of self-defence.

But this was not true, he admitted as he took to the witness box on the third day of his trial.

Instead, the court was told, he was "apocalyptically angry" as he hit her in the head repeatedly with a hammer before stabbing her with a samurai sword retrieved from his office.

The killing came as she was preparing food in the kitchen when, he said, he thought she looked like a hybrid of his estranged wife and jilted lover.

In a pre-recorded interview with one of his victims, the girl he was found to have raped, she told how a hammer was used to kill Ms Burke.

The girl said Jellica was killed during a game of hide-and-seek, and told the interviewer she could not save them because "she didn't know what was happening".

She said Innes sexually abused the toddler, and described the repeated sexual assaults and rapes inflicted on her.

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Bennylyn's father Ben Aquino arriving at Edinburgh High Court

Innes denied the sex attacks when arrested and on March 5 told Detective Constable Paul Hardie: "I never touched the girl."

But a jury found this to be a lie, having been presented with DNA evidence from items including handcuffs and clothing.

Dr Gordon Cowan, a psychiatrist, told the court Innes had changed his story multiple times when asked why he killed Ms Burke.

At first it was acting in self-defence, then he heard voices, before Innes finally settled on his hybrid-vision story.

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Police discovered two bodies at the address in March 2021

Dr Cowan said of Innes: "It's clear he held resentment towards his ex-partners and this lady in front of him, in some way, reminded him of these ladies and he became angry, uncontrollably angry at her."

And, Dr Cowan told jurors, there was a point where Innes felt he was psychotic when he killed Ms Burke and not when he killed Jellica, but he later said he had been psychotic during both killings.

He said he changed his description of events to suggest he was "wondering around like a zombie".

Asked by Brian McConnachie KC, defending Innes, if his client's behaviour could have been linked to steroid-induced psychosis, Dr Cowan pointed out that, prior to the killing, Innes had gone to B&Q, where he bought a hammer.

He told the court if someone had florid psychosis, suffering hallucinations and delusions to the point where they were killing people, they would not be doing their normal business without people noticing.

Innes claimed he was "insane as a result of the steroids" prescribed for his Crohn's disease, but Dr Cowan said he did not believe the 52-year-old was impaired at the time he murdered Mr Burke, nor when he killed the toddler.

After he murdered them, with the toddler having been killed around three days after Ms Burke, he hid them below his kitchen floor at his home in Dundee.

But Innes told the court they were not buried in concrete, saying during his evidence: "I dug them a respectable grave and gave them a Christian burial and then replaced the floor. That's all I did."

Police said the crimes "shocked and appalled" officers