Only maniac father to blame for Ellie death

Ellie Butler was unlawfully killed by her ‘maniac’ father but the authorities who sent her back to live with him were not to blame, a coroner ruled today. 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…