Man accused of murdering mum and daughter tells of 'apocalyptic anger' before hammer attack
02.02.2023 - 17:35
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A double murder accused wept as he told a jury how he was “apocalyptically angry” in the moments before he repeatedly struck a mum with a hammer.
Andrew Innes, 52, told jurors on Thursday how he started having “very crazy” thoughts before he assaulted Bennylyn Burke, 25, on Sunday February 21, 2021. On Thursday, the High Court in Edinburgh heard Mr Innes say Mrs Burke was standing at the sink of his home in Innes Avenue, Dundee in the moments before the assault.
He told jurors how Bennylyn, from the back, physically resembled his estranged Japanese wife with her long dark hair. Innes told the jury that he started thinking about how his marriage ended and the “hateful” behaviour of his partner who cut long her long dark hair, and dyed it blonde.
He also told the court of how at the time he was married to his wife, he was having an affair with another Japanese woman who he met at a ‘rope bondage club’. He told the court this woman dumped him “in the most horrible way” by text message after she had agreed to move in with him.
Innes, a software engineer, told defence advocate Brian McConnachie KC: “These three women have similar physical similarities. The woman in front of me looked like my wife.”
He then said from the neck down, Bennylyn looked like the woman he met at the bondage club. Innes told the court that he started thinking about the “hateful” things his wife had done to him during his marriage and Bennylyn started resembling a “hybrid” of his partner and his former lover.
Telling the jury that he didn’t believe in “fairies, dragons and unicorns”, Innes said: “I was apocalyptically angry.
“I started thinking about my wife and her hair. She would get it cut short and dyed brown. I really got annoyed with it. it was nasty.