Antiques dealer ‘strangled daughter to death with dressing gown cord’

A wealthy antiques dealer strangled his seven-year-old daughter to death with a dressing gown cord, a court heard. Robert Peters, 56, throttled 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. Peters called police himself, and PCs Claire Johns and David Pilkington arrived at his address to find the cord tightly wrapped around the girl’s neck at least twice, having been tied in…