Life sentence for antiques dealer who strangled daughter with dressing gown cord

A wealthy antiques dealer who throttled his seven-year-old daughter to death with a dressing gown cord after deceiving child protection officials was jailed for at least 24 years. 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. Peters, who suffered from depression and had attempted suicide twice, had only recently been assessed by the local authorities to see whether…