Ellie could have died after falling from low chair

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Tragic Ellie Butler could have died from a fall from a low chair after suffering a skull fracture in an accident weeks earlier, the Old Bailey heard today (tues). The six-year-old suffered ‘car crash-type’ injuries just 11 months after being returned to her parents following the quashing of 36-year-old Ben Butler’s conviction for violently shaking her when she was a baby in 2007. Dr Janice Ophoven said she died from ‘blunt force impact to the head’ but insisted prior head…

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