Andrew Innes will spend at least 36 years in jail for killing Bennylyn and Jellica Burke after luring them to Dundee.
A jury has been instructed to find a man guilty of murdering a 25-year-old mother and her two-year-old girl at his home in Dundee.
Andrew Innes, 52, stabbed and beat Bennylyn Burke to death with a hammer before strangling her daughter Jellica.
Innes had admitted the killings but denied murder, claiming diminished responsibility.
But in his instructions to the jury, judge Lord Beckett said they had to find Innes guilty of the two murders.
The judge said no evidence had been led during the trial to show that Innes had been suffering from mental impairment at the time of the killings.
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“You will return verdicts of guilty to the charges of murder against the accused,” he said.
The jury has retired to consider its verdict.
Innes denies sexually assaulting Jellica and raping another child in February or March 2021.
He also denies attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
The court has previously heard that Bennylyn had met Innes online on a dating site.
He took Bennylyn and Jellica to his home in Dundee in February 2021 after driving to meet them in Bristol, where they lived.
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