Peter Nielsen, the Danish man suspected to be responsible for the death of his late wife, Zainab Ali Nielsen and their 4-year-old child, Petra Nielsen, has been remanded in the Ikoyi Prison today by a Yaba Magistrate court.
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a Danish national, Peter Nielsen, who was suspected of killing his wife, Zainab Ali- Nielsen and their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra. .
The court Magistrate, Kikelomo Ayeye remanded 53-year-old Peter Nielsen in the Ikoyi Prison, following an application by the police.
The Prosecutor, Effiong Asuquo, tendered an application, containing 15 grounds for Nielsen’s remand in prison. Asuquo said: “There is overwhelming forensic evidence linking the defendant to the assault and murder of his wife and daughter. Investigation has also shown that the defendant was habitually violent to his late wife, Zainab. A fight broke out between the couple in their flat at about 3:00 a.m. on that fateful day. Nielsen was allegedly seen fighting and hitting the deceased’s head on a wall by her two relations, Mimi, 11, and Faith, 13 who lived with them.”
Alizee reportedly died from injuries sustained during the assault. Asuquo also claimed that Nielsen then poisoned Petra before dragging her body into the kitchen. .
He said: “He took the lifeless little girl and put her under the mother’s body and then put on gas stove burners in the kitchen so that it will be believed that the wife and daughter were suffocated to death by the cooking gas”
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