WARNING – THIS PODCAST RELATES TO THE DEATH OF A CHILD:

“You will have blood on you hands”  The words of a loving grandfather who, having been order by a single judge to relinquish his granddaughter, who he had cared for since she was a baby, into the brutal and ultimately murderous hands of her own father Ben Butler.

Ellie Butler, was a sweet little six year old, who as her devoted grandparents would say was their absolute shining light.  The same grandparents who would care for, nurture and bring little Ellie up for the first six years of her life.  Ellie was placed into the care of her maternal loving grandparents after, as a new-born, she had been found with unexplained injuries whist in the care of her own father Ben Butler.    

A harrowing mixture of a barely believable judicial decisions, a technically of law and Ben Butler’s rampant unabated narcissism, which would involve the notorious and jailed PR guru Max Clifford.  All of which culminated in a young defenceless child being placed at the vicious and cruel hands of her known to be highly volatile and violent father. As Ellie’s grandfather said to the judge and authorities who had made the disastrous order to make Ellie go back to her parents “You will have blood on your hands”         

What could make a grown man brutalise and callously take the life of his own six year old daughter?  And why was Ellie’s mother Jennie Gray so completely unwilling to see any flaw or fault in anything Ben Butler did?  Which would include abusing, humiliating and threatening her on multiple occasions.  

In this episode of Why Killers Kill – Analysis of Murder With Dr. Jane I’ll to look into the mind set of an angry and brutal father in an attempt to offer a psychological explanation of his vicious attitude towards his six year old daughter, Ellie Butler.