This is the disturbing moment a Scots killer purchased a hammer and cement in B&Q before murdering a mum and her child.
The footage shows Andrew Innes handing over his bank card in a chilling transaction for the murder weapon on the morning of 25-year-old Bennylyn Burke's death. In CCTV images released by the Crown, Innes is also seen leaving the shop with bags of cement - later used to bury the bodies of his two victims.
The 52-year-old went on to bludgeon Ms Burke to death with the tool before going on to strangle her two-year-old daughter, Jellica, in February 2021. He planted their bodies in rubble bags and concealed them in concrete beneath his kitchen floor at his home on Troon Avenue in Dundee.
Innes was today found guilty of murdering the mother-of-one and her child following a five-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. He was also convicted of sexually abusing the toddler and raping another child at the same property between February 20 and March 5, 2021.
Prosecutors heard how he lunged on the mother, who he met on a dating site and lured to Scotland from Bristol, as she was preparing food in the kitchen. He said he thought she looked like a hybrid of his estranged wife and a jilted lover, which caused him to fly into a fit of rage.
Innes hit his victim repeatedly with the murder weapon before going on to stab her with a samurai sword retrieved from his office. During questioning by prosecutors, Innes said that he killed Jellica two or three days after her mother.
He argued that the victims were not buried in concrete as he declared: “I dug them a respectable grave and gave them a Christian burial and then replaced the floor. That’s all I did.”
The murderer also told the court of his attempted self-castration and negotiations with a potential “sexual playmate” while he railed against his estranged wife for cutting and dyeing her hair in a way he did not like.
The jury is said to have witnessed some of the most harrowing evidence to come before a Scottish court.
Innes faces life imprisonment with each murder carrying a mandatory life sentence.
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