• Andrew Innes is accused of murdering Jellica Burke and her baby Bennylyn.
• The pair were found under his kitchen floor in Dundee in February or March 2021.
• He denies the charges against him at the High Court in Edinburgh.

A man who murdered a lady and her two-year-old daughter before burying their remains under the floor of his Dundee home has admitted to doing so.

But 52-year-old Andrew Innes claims diminished culpability and denies killing Bennylyn and Jellica Burke.

Innes is currently on trial for allegedly killing Bennylyn, 25, and her daughter in February or March of 2021.

Additionally, he is charged with sexually abusing Jellica Burke and trying to thwart the course of justice.

Innes is also accused of raping a different youngster. To each charge, he has entered a not guilty plea.

At the beginning of the trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, a joint minute of agreed-upon evidence between the prosecution and Innes’ defense team was read to the jury.

This evidence has been acknowledged as being uncontroversial by both the prosecution and Innes’s legal team.

Innes stabbed Bennylyn multiple times and repeatedly struck her on the head with a hammer and the knife’s handle, according to junior prosecution attorney Frankie Morgan. Jellica suffocated to death.

Morgan stated Then Innes placed their dead in garbage bags and buried them beneath the concrete of his home’s kitchen floor.

The joint minute describes the autopsies that were performed on Bennylyn and Jellica. According to this, Bennylyn died as a result of a single chest knife wound and head injuries caused by physical force.

Bennylyn, who was from the Philippines, had met Innes online and travelled with him in February 2021 from Bristol to his house in Dundee.

The bodies of Bennylyn and Jellica were discovered under his kitchen floor the next month.

The trial continues in front of Lord Beckett.

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