A father has been jailed for murdering his daughter by strangling her with a dressing gown cord at their family home in south-west London.
Robert Peters, 56, denied murdering Sophia Peters, seven, but changed his plea on the third day of his trial.
Sophia was killed just over a month after her depressed and suicidal father was found not to be a risk by a child protection team.
Mr Justice Edis jailed Peters at the Old Bailey for a minimum of 24 years.
Peters, who ran an antiques firm in Kensington and was a former Israeli soldier, throttled Sophia in a house on Blenheim Road, Wimbledon, on 3 November.
He then called police to report what he had done. Sophia was rushed to St George's Hospital, Tooting, where she died the following day.
During the sentencing Sophia's mother, Krittiya Peters, said in a statement to the court that she had struggled to come to terms with the death of her daughter.
"Since Sophia died I have been on a rollercoaster of emotions," she said.
"Sophia was a beautiful, loving, active, adventurous, brave and outgoing girl. She loved to dance and sing. I would give anything I have to be able to bring my daughter back.
"I could not believe what happened to Sophia. Initially I did not know what to think but knew Robert should never have hurt her."
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