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01.02.2023 - 16:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A girl at the Dundee home where Bennylyn Burke and her daughter Jellica were killed told police she "should have saved them" but could not because she did not know what was happening.
Andrew Innes, 52, is accused of murdering Burke, 25, and, Jellica, two, at a house on the city's Troon Avenue between February 20 and March 5, 2021. Innes has admitted killing the pair but denies murdering them and has lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility.
The High Court in Edinburgh was played an interview with a girl in the house at the time of the alleged murders on Tuesday. She told officers: "I should have saved them but I couldn't because I didn't know what was happening."
In the interview, the girl said a game of hide-and-seek had started, and when asked about two-year-old Jellica's death, she said: "I don't know where, I just know looking in the bathroom and he shut the door on me. Andrew shut the door at me so it must be in the bathroom."
Innes is also accused of raping the girl and of sexually abusing Jellica. The girl told the court that after she was sexually assaulted she would be paid, and referred to "jobs" during the interview played to the jury.
"The first job Jellica was there, Jellica was with me, then the rest of the jobs Jellica was dead," she said.
The interviewer was told they both were given £2.10 after that incident. The girl recalled the alleged crimes against her, and said Innes used handcuffs and put tape and a sock on her face.
"It felt terrible," she said.
A post-mortem examination revealed Ms Burke, who weighed 5st 7lb, suffered a single stab wound to her chest, as well as head injuries, with pathologists having said the combined effects of internal bleeding and the injuries to her head caused her
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This is the moment police arrived at killer Andrew Innes's home and arrested him for the sickening murders of young mum Bennylyn Burke and her young daughter Jellica.