Jury told to convict man of murdering mother and daughter
A jury has been instructed to find a man guilty of murdering a 25-year-old mother and her two-year-old girl at his home in Dundee.
Andrew Innes, 52, stabbed and beat Bennylyn Burke to death with a hammer before strangling her daughter Jellica.But in his instructions to the jury, judge Lord Beckett said they had to find Innes guilty of the two murders. The judge said no evidence had been led during the trial to show that Innes had been suffering from mental impairment at the time of the killings."You will return verdicts of guilty to the charges of murder against the accused," he said.Innes denies sexually assaulting Jellica and raping another child in February or March 2021.The court has previously heard that Bennylyn had met Innes online on a dating site.
He took Bennylyn and Jellica to his home in Dundee in February 2021 after driving to meet them in Bristol, where they lived.
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