Child killer told police: ‘I’ve had a breakdown’

A wealthy antiques dealer was ’emotionless’ as he confessed to throttling his seven-year-old daughter to death with a dressing gown cord, a court heard. Robert Peters, 56, strangled Sophia for more than 20 minutes as she lay in bed in their £1 million home in Raynes Park, southwest London, on 3 November last year. As Peters entered Sophia’s room, the girl had asked her father: ‘What are you doing?’ Peters phoned the police himself, telling the operator ‘there’s been a…