Daughter may have ‘jumped and hit her head’ while I was asleep

A stay-at-home dad accused of battering his six-year-old daughter to death said today (thurs) she may have ‘jumped and hit her head’ when he was sleeping downstairs. Ben Butler, 36, claims little Ellie died as a result of injuries caused weeks earlier when she was chasing the family Jack Russell puppy, Minnie, down the stairs. He has told jurors he shut her bedroom door and went for a lie down after finding his child before ‘covering up his mistakes’. Butler…