The Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Peter Leslie Carter yesterday slumped and died at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.
Carter, who arrived the county aboard an a Delta Air Lines flight from the United States had taken ill while onboard, but the exact cause of his death could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report last night.
The plane had arrived the country from Atlanta, Georgia around 4pm on yesterday.
A source close to the airport confirmed to our correspondent in Lagos that the medical personnel attached to the terminal tried to revive him after he collapsed shortly after disembarking without success.
When it was confirmed that he had passed on, an ambulance was ordered to take his body to the morgue.
As at the time of filing this report, the morgue where he was taken to could not be confirmed.
Born on 19 November 1956, he was Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia 2007–2012.
Carter was educated at The Skinners’ School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and attended New College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He then worked for Arthur Andersen before moving to Italy, where he became a language teacher.
In 1984, he joined HM Diplomatic Service with postings at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London and New Delhi, and in 1996 went to Brussels, where he became responsible for the EU’s Middle East policy. He returned to London in 1998, where he negotiated the deal between North Korea and the United Kingdom which established diplomatic relations between the two countries. In 2001, Carter became Consul General at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, and then in 2006 he served as Consul General in Milan. In December 2007 he was confirmed as the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Estonia.
