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Robert Peters father of Sophia Peters, has been jailed for murdering his daughter by strangling her with her dressing gown chord within their home in South-west.  He had chosen to do this before she had been due to return to her boarding school after the half-term break.  Waiting until his wife had gone out before he woke Sophia in bed by tying a chord around her neck and throttling her for thirty minutes, and allegedly continued after she asked what he was doing and as she struggled.  Originally he had denied murdering her but changed his plea on the third day of his trial.

She was killed over a month after her depressed and suicidal father was found not a risk by the child protection team.  Robert Peters was jailed for a minimum for twenty four years.  Peters ran an antiques firm within kensington, had allegedly throttled Sophia in their house in Blenheim Road in Wimbledon on November 3.

Sophia's mother is apparently struggling to come to terms with the death of her daughter.  Robert declared that he had financial worries and his business was going bankrupt, which was one of the sources of his depression, even though after later inquiries they found that he had money within his bank account.

Months before the killing  Peters had searched the internet for "serial killers", treatment of child killers in prison" and "premeditated murder".

Overall, this is a very disturbing and sad situation to of occurred to this young child.  Not only did the government fail her due to the fact that they did not find her suicidal and severely depressed father unfit to look after her but her mother or immediate family seemed to of ignored the warning signs and left her alone with him.  Although no one may of expected him to do such an atrocious thing, it still happened.  The person that still deemed him not a risk, that department needs to be thoroughly checked or staff properly trained because due to the fact that he was deemed not a risk this child is no longer alive.

According ti statistics 72% of those killed by their own parents were 6 years old or younger.  57% of those that killed their own offspring were fathers.  This is a disturbingly high amount of cases of such a situation and hopefully the necessary actions are taken place to reduce this.