UPDATE: Alleged Killer Of Singer Zainab, Daughter Remanded In Prison

Peter Nielsen has been remanded in Ikoyi Prison on the order of a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for the murder of his three-year-old daughter Petra and wife Zainab at their Banana Island home.

Nielsen, 53 a Danish citizen, is being tried on a two-count charge bordering on murder.

The Magistrate, Mrs K.B. Ayeye, who gave the ruling, said the accused should be kept behind bars pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Nielsen, He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.

But CSP Effiong Asuquo, the prosecutor, told the court that the accused committed the offences on April 5 at his residence at Block 4, Flat 17, Bella Vista Tower, Banana Island, Ikoyi.

He alleged that the accused killed his wife, Zainab, 37, and her daughter, Petra, in the house.

“The accused who was always at loggerheads with his wife had hit her head on the wall several times leading to her death; he also proceeded to poison his daughter.

“He had dragged their lifeless bodies under the gas to create the impression that they suffocated to death as a result of a gas leakage,” he said.

The offences contravened Sections 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which prescribes death sentence for offenders.

The case has been adjourned until May 8 pending DPP’s advice.