Arrest over young girl's death

Police have tonight bailed the father of a 6 year old girl who was arrested in connection with her death at her family home in South London.

Ellie Butler collapsed in Sutton on Monday - a post mortem examination has revealed she died from a head injury.

Her headteacher Alex Clark, of Avenue Primary School, said the school community had been shocked by the death and their thoughts were with Ellie's family.

A young girl who died in unexplained circumstances in south London was a popular child who "was always giggling away about something".

A 33-year-old man has been arrested over the death of six-year-old Ellie Butler.

Ellie collapsed in her home in Sutton, south London, on Monday afternoon. Paramedics treated her at the scene but she was pronounced dead at hospital.

A man has been arrested following the unexplained death of a six-year-old girl in Sutton, south London. Two paramedic crews were sent to an address yesterday afternoon following reports that a girl had collapsed.

The girl, who hasn't been named, was treated at the scene before being pronounced dead at a London hospital.