A brave little girl who was rescued from Andrew Innes' house provided key evidence to help police nail the despicable double killer.
Police detectives found the seven-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in the software engineer’s house watching cartoons. Innes claimed the girl was his daughter when officers came to his home in Dundee looking for Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter Jellica.
But detectives uncovered the fact that the schoolgirl was unrelated to him and had spent the previous two weeks in Innes’s house being subjected to horrific sexual assaults and a rape. Innes told jurors that if the police had turned up to his house 24 hours later, officers could have found her murdered dead body.
