A 53-yr-old, Peter Nielsen, who allegedly killed his wife, Zainab, and her three-yr-old daughter, Petra,was once on Wednesday remanded in Ikoyi Prisons on the orders of a cheif judge in Yaba Magistrates court , Lagos.
Nielsen, a Danish citizen, is being tried on a two-rely cost bordering on homicide.
The prosecutor, CSP Effiong Asuquo, told the courtroom that the accused committed the offences on April 5 at his house at Block 4, Flat 17,Bella Vista Tower, Banana Island, Ikoyi.
He alleged that the accused killed his spouse, Zainab, 37, and her daughter, Petra, within the condominium.
The accused who was invariably at loggerheads with his wife had hit her head on the wall a number of times main to her dying; he also proceeded to poison his daughter.
He had dragged their useless our bodies below the fuel to create the impact that they suffocated to dying for that reason of a gasoline leakage.
The offences contravened Sections 223 of the crook law of Lagos State, 2015 which prescribes demise sentence for offenders.
He, nevertheless, pleaded not responsible to the charges labelled against him.
The magistrate, Mrs k.B. Ayeye, who gave the ruling, mentioned the accused will have to be kept at the back of bars pending recommendation from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The case has been adjourned until may 8th pending DPPs recommendation.
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