Court adjorns judgment in murder case against Dane, Peter Nielsen to May 20

The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square annex, presided by Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile has shifted judgment for the four-year-old double murder trial against a Dane, Peter Nielsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife, Zainab, and daughter, Petra, to May 20.

Ruling was initially fixed for Friday, May 6, but on getting to the court newsmen gathered that the judgment was not ready prompting a new date for the hearing.

At the last sitting of the court on March 1st, the judge fixed May 6 to deliver her judgment, after the lead defense counsel, Oladipupo Shasore, and the Lagos State Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Adebayo Haroun, adopted their final written addresses.

The 53-year-old Dane was arraigned on June 13, 2018, on a two-count charge of murder, punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2015, which prescribes the death penalty, if convicted. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Mr Nielsen was said to have killed his wife, a musician also known as Alizee, and his daughter on April 5, 2018, at about 3.45 am at their Banana Island residence in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.