‘I spoiled my kids’ says monster dad Ben Butler

A social worker of 30 years experience told Ellie Butler’s inquest he had no reason to suspect her father would kill her despite the concerns of her grandparents, school and local authority. 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…