Ellie Butler was returned to killer dad ‘after welfare concerns were ignored’

Ellie Butler was returned to her parents 11 months before she was murdered despite the concerns of her grandparents, school and the local authority, an inquest heard. Ben Butler, 38, is serving life with a minimum of 23 years for beating his six-year-old daughter to death at their family home in Sutton, south London in October 2013. The youngster went to live with her grandparents, Neal and Linda Gray, after Butler was convicted of shaking her when she was a…