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An antiques dealer strangled his seven-year-old daughter with a dressing
gown cord as part of a plan to kill his family to spare them the 'pain and
upset' of bankruptcy, a court heard.
Robert Peters, 56, had ended a two-and-a-half-year affair and was worrying
about his finances before the attack on his daughter Sophia, jurors heard.
And in police interview, he said Sophia had woken up just as he put the cord
around her neck and asked: 'What are you doing?'
Peters waited until his wife had gone out before he woke Sophia up in bed by
tying a cord around her neck and throttling her for up to half an hour.
Afterwards, he called 999 and told police to come to his home in Wimbledon,
south west London, saying: 'There been a murder.'
He said a child had been killed, and when asked who had done it, replied: 'I
have.'
Officers arrived at his Blenheim Road home minutes later and Peters calmly
told them: 'She's upstairs. I've strangled her.
'My daughter, she's upstairs in her bedroom.'
Sophia was found lying in a foetal position on a single bed wearing a
nightie and knickers with a black fleece dressing gown cord wrapped and
knotted tightly round her neck.
She had a weak pulse and was rushed to hospital, joined soon after by her
mother Krittiya, who was escorted there by police. |
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