A man who killed a woman and her two-year-old daughter before burying their bodies under his kitchen floor faces a life sentence after being convicted of murder. Andrew Innes, 52, was found guilty of murdering Bennylyn Burke, 25, and Jellica Burke after a five-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
He was also convicted of sexually abusing the toddler and raping another child at his Dundee home between February 20 and March 5 2021. Judge Lord Beckett instructed the jury to return guilty verdicts on both murder charges, following the medical evidence heard on Innes’ state of mind at the time.
Innes, who at times sobbed in the witness box while giving evidence in his defence, had denied all charges but the jury of eight men and seven women spent just under two and a half hours to find he was responsible for the crimes. During the trial, the jury witnessed some of the most harrowing evidence to come before a Scottish court.
