Girl says she 'should have saved' Bennylyn Burke and daughter in Dundee home

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.