Jury told to convict Andrew Innes of murdering Bennylyn and Jellica Burke

A assemblage has been instructed to find a antheral blameworthy of murdering a 25-year-old parent and her two-year-old miss astatine his location successful Dundee.

Andrew Innes, 52, stabbed and bushed Bennylyn Burke to decease with a hammer earlier strangling her girl Jellica.

Innes had admitted the killings but denied murder, claiming diminished responsibility.

Judge Lord Beckett told the assemblage that the peculiar defences lodged by Innes were not disposable to them.

At the High Court successful Edinburgh, helium told them: "I'm directing you connected charges 1 and 2 you volition instrumentality a verdict of guilty."

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