A Lagos high court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has convicted Peter Nielsen, a Danish national, for killing his wife and daughter.
The state government had, on June 13, 2018, arraigned Nielsen before the court on a two-count charge of murder — the offence is contrary to Section 223 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2015.
He was alleged to have killed his wife, Zainab, also known by her stage name as Alizee and his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter on April 5, 2018, at about 3:45 am at their Banana Island residence in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.
Peter Nielsen killed his Nigerian wife, Zainab Ali-Nielsen, popularly known as Alizee and her 4-year-old daughter, Petra, in 2018.
According to Madaki Gift who is the younger sister of the deceased, she said, she heard the victim screaming for help before she was killed.
The audio of the interview which was exclusively obtained by TheNewsGuru.com reveals that, there was no obvious altercation between Alizee and her husband before the killing took place, as she reportedly served him dinner before they went to bed.
She said, “My name is Madaki Gift I am Zainab’s sister, the late Zainab who died. It just happened overnight when she finished preparing the food for her husband. The housemate went to her room and I was the last person to leave the kitchen. So after a while, there was a fight between both of them and she was just shouting “Help Help!!”.
“I woke my junior sister up asking her if she heard any noise, later I saw the man hitting her head on the floor. I tried to help but he locked everywhere, there was no way for me to run and call people to come and help.
“This was around 4:00am In the morning, by the time we got there later in the morning she was dead.”
The Kogi-born singer was reportedly signed to an Asian record label, Petra Entertainment in 2017.
Giving the ruling on Friday, Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile, the presiding judge, sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on both counts.
