Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Bodies of mum and daughter identified
TWO bodies recovered from a house in Troon Avenue, Dundee, have been formally identified as Bennylyn Burke, 25, and daughter Jellica, 2.
Bennylyn and Jellica’s family are being supported by family liaison officers, police said.
Officers in Dundee went to a property on Troon Avenue around 3.20pm on March 5 investigating the disappearance of the two, missing from South Gloucestershire since March 1.
On March 8 Andrew Innes, 50, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court charged with their murders and will stand trial.
The bodies were discovered in the Troon Avenue property on March 18.
Innes is alleged to have used a hammer to murder Bennylyn at his home and murdered Jellica Burke through “unknown means”.
Prosecutors allege that Innes committed the murders between February
17 and March 5.
A police spokesman said: “The two bodies which were recovered from a house in Troon
Avenue, Dundee, on Thursday 18
March 2021 have now been formally identified as Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her daughter Jellica, 2.
The formal identification came as police continue to examine the property.
Yesterday, three weeks after the probe began, three police vehicles were parked outside the house.
Several police tents remain in the back garden while the front door and a front window have been covered by tarpaulins.
Neighbours have noticed an increase in activity around the property this week.
One resident said: “Police told us they were likely to be on the scene for around five weeks.
“It was a bit quieter for a while, although the police stayed and the house remained cordoned off; however, this week more officers have returned. “There have been considerably more police, and white-suited forensic officers have been back again along with more plain-clothes detectives.”