Killer Andrew Innes tells court of rage during hammer attack
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He said the child died some days after her mother, during a struggle as he tried to stop her touching a dangerous piece of electrical equipment.Toddler 'was killed during game of hide-and-seek' He told the court: "I started to think about all of the spiteful stuff my wife did to me. I got angry. He said that after a struggle on the kitchen floor he went to fetch a samurai sword which he kept in his office."I remember wrestling on the kitchen floor. I had a samurai sword in my office and I remember thinking 'right, I will get my samurai sword' so I went into my office and she started chasing me.Asked where Jellica and another child were at the time, he said they were watching cartoons.
He said he had been playing "hide and seek" upstairs with the child when she ran towards an electrical transformer.
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