Trial of father accused of beating six-year-old daughter to death is shown video and 999 call of girl's mother 'lying about what happened to save his skin'

Jennie Gray (right, arriving at the Old Bailey), 35, had to be comforted by alleged killer Ben Butler, also 35, as jurors heard them shouting and screaming while they begged for an ambulance to save their little girl, Ellie (together, left). 

The 'urgent' call was apparently made just moments after the couple had discovered their daughter's lifeless body on the bedroom floor of their family home in Sutton, south London. Paramedics arrived minutes after to find Ellie lying on her back next to an overturned stool, with injuries more commonly associated with car crash victims. But the jury had been told earlier how the phone call was made more than two hours after Ellie suffered 'catastrophic head injuries', allegedly at the hands of her bullying stay-at-home father. 

The prosecution say both parents (inset, in court today) already knew their daughter's fate and had spent those hours plotting a 'carefully coordinated and elaborate' cover-up to make it look as though Ellie had died in a tragic accident. Gray, a graphic designer, has already admitted perverting the course of justice by lying to officers about the events surrounding the girl's death in October 2013, including the 'charade' phone call. But she and Butler deny child cruelty. Butler also denies a charge of murder.

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