Ellie Trial: Dad's 'Bark Worse Than His Bite'

The 36-year-old graphic designer also insisted Butler was "completely devoted, completely in love with the fact that he was a dad" and that the family were not living in a "house of horrors" at the time of their little girl's death. Butler, 36, is on trial charged with murdering Ellie Butler at their home in south London on 28 October, 2013, and trying to pass it off as an accident. Asked if Butler had ever been violent, Gray told the trial on Monday: "Never.