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The Danish man, peter Nielsen who purportedly killed his better half and little girl is to stay in jail authority until the point that his preliminary starts in October.
A Lagos High Court sitting in the Igbosere gave the request on Thursday following Mr Nielsen’s arraignment by the Lagos State Government, Channels Television reports.
The presume showed up before Justice Bola Okikiolu-Ighile on two tallies of murder, an offense in spite of Section 223 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2015.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos, Adeniji Kazeem, drove the state indictment group at the procedures.
He told the court that Mr Neilsen, 53, professedly slaughtered his 37-year-old artist spouse, Zainab, and his three-year-old little girl, Petra, on April 5, at around 3:45 a.m. at their Banana Island living arrangement in the Ikoyi, Lagos.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges while the Attorney General consequently asked the court for a trial date.
The counsel to the defendant and a former Attorney-General of Lagos, Olasupo Shasore, who had no objections to the request, told the court that the defence team would like to carry out a test.
He said, “We are interested in taking the blood sample of the defendant; I thought it will be better to inform this court that his blood sample would be taken for DNA, analysis.”
Justice Okikiolu-Ighile then asked the defendant if he would like to give his consent for his blood sample to be taken for the DNA test.
Mr Nielson, in his response, said, “Yes I give my consent for my blood sample to be taken for DNA.”
Mr. Shasore further informed the court that the defence team needed the results of an autopsy report earlier conducted by the prosecution team for trial.
“We are interested in the autopsy report and the prosecution has assured us that we would get it in four weeks. We need to consult some of our experts for analysis of the test as we would need it during the trial,” he added.
The commissioner, on his part, promised to make same available to the defence team, noting that the state government’s forensic lab would collect the blood sample of the defendant.
He explained that this was because of the pending medical tests and the fast-approaching annual court vacation scheduled to commence in July.
In her ruling, Justice Okikiolu- Ighile ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.
She then adjourned the case till October 8 and 9 after the court’s vacation, for the commencement of trial.
Premium times reported how Zainab and her four-year-old daughter, Petral, were found dead on April 5 at their Banana Island resident, Ikoyi, where she resided with her husband, Peter Nielsen.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Edgal Imohimi, said the forensic report revealed that there were bloodstains from the couple’s bedroom to the kitchen.
