Killer tried to squirm off the hook

SICK Innes spoke of his love for “ultrafeminine” women and visits to bondage clubs while describing how he beat Bennylyn to death with a hammer.

Horrified members of Bennylyn’s family sat weeping in the public benches of the High Court in Edinburgh listening to his horrifying account.

He claimed he suffered from “diminished responsibility” and was having “very crazy” thoughts at the time he murdered Bennylyn.

In the weeks leading up to the killing, Innes had spent time trying to persuade an Aberdeen University student to become his sexual playmate.

Innes said that Bennylyn was standing at the sink of his Dundee home moments before the assault.

He told jurors how from the back she physically resembled his estranged Japanese wife.

Innes said 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.

Innes told the court he’d had a difficult marriage to his wife, who he didn’t name.

She said she threatened to leave him because she didn’t like living in Scotland.

He claimed they had gone to live in California but after spending three years there, she issued him with a “ransom letter”, detailing her demands for her to stay with him.

Innes also told the court that before killing Bennylyn he had bought a lump hammer from a nearby branch of B&Q.

He came home and saw Bennylyn making packed lunches for the drive home and he attacked her.

He said it was not premeditated. He claimed he had a samurai sword in the house and other items that were more “appropriate” weapons.