In a handwritten letter found by police, a 40-year-old Newfoundland man blames killing his daughter on his ex-wife.
The letter was entered as evidence Monday at the first-degree murder trial of Trent Butt, who has pleaded not guilty to killing killing his five-year-old daughter Quinn in April 2016.
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Butt wrote that after everything he had to put up with at the hands of his wife, Andrea Gosse, “I have taken my daughters and my own life.”
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In the letter, Butt says that he didn’t know how he did it- killing his daughter – but he says he had thought about it for a while.
In earlier testimony Dr. Simon Avis, who was the province’s chief medical examiner at the time, says he concluded Quinn Butt died of undetermined injuries.
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The girl’s body was found in the master bedroom along with her father when emergency crews responded to a fire at his home in Carbonear.
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