With his subsequent arrest, Peter Nielsen, a Danish national was arraigned before a magistrate court concerning the alleged murder of wife, Zainab Alizee, who can be described as a rising Nigerian singer, and her three-year-old daughter, Petra, who were murdered at their Banana Island residence, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday.
Effiong Asuquo, a chief superintendent of police, told a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Wednesday that the accused hit his wife’s head on the wall several times leading to her death and then proceeded to poison his daughter.
Mr. Asuquo, a prosecutor, alleged that the accused killed Zainab and her daughter in the house.
Mr Nielsen allegedly committed the offences on Wednesday at his residence at Block 4, Flat 17, Bella Vista Tower, Banana Island, Ikoyi.
“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,” the prosecutor said.
The offences contravened Sections 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 and carry a death penalty.
The case has been adjourned until May 8 pending advice of the state’s director of public prosecution.
The accused initially denied culpability in the murder, stating rather that he woke up to find the bodies in the kitchen and that they could have been suffocated by gas.
Meanwhile, Nollywood actress, Omoni Oboli, has called for justice over Alizee’s death.
