We guess it was a dummy,' he told BT.Īt a press conference this afternoon, police said Madsen had then jumped into a white van and forced the person behind the wheel to drive for around five minutes before officers caught up with him.ĭetectives have so far struggled to question the driver because he speaks little Danish, but he is not suspected of plotting with Madsen, police said. 'It was very violent and the staff therefore choose to back off. Prison official Bo Yde Sorensen said Madsen was 'armed with a pistol-like object' and said guards were right to lock him out of the jail because there was an 'obvious risk to life'. Madsen escaped from the prison by using an object that 'looked like a pistol' to convince guards that the psychologist's life was in danger.
DANISH MAN PERSONAL SUBMARINE TRIAL
The 12-day trial started March 8, and the verdict will be delivered Wednesday at 1 p.m.Danish inventor Peter Madsen (left) was jailed in 2018 for the gory murder of journalist Kim Wall (right) on his submarine in a Copenhagen harbour “I am really, really sorry about what happened,” Madsen said, addressing the dead journalist’s parents - Ingrid and Joachim Wall - after the defense and the prosecution wrapped up their cases. Hald Engmark said Madsen should only be sentenced for the “horrible” act of cutting up Wall’s body, adding that she was requesting a 6-month prison term. Madsen, who told the court he was “a promiscuous person,” has admitted to dismembering Wall’s body before he “buried her at sea.” He claimed he had to because he could not lift the woman’s body up the submarine tower in one piece to throw it overboard. Buch-Jepsen retorted Monday that “forensic experts have found nothing” backing that. The 47-year-old Dane says Wall died because of a pressure problem in the home-made submarine. Hald Engmark said there was no doubt Madsen dismembered Wall’s body, but told the court there was inadequate evidence proving he killed her. Madsen has said the reporter’s death was accidental. The cause of her death has not been established. Her torso had been stabbed multiple times. Her remains were found in plastic bags on the Baltic Sea bed weeks later. 10 to interview Madsen, the co-founder of a company that develops and builds manned spacecraft. Wall, a 30-year-old freelance journalist who wrote for The New York Times, The Guardian and other publications, set out on the submarine on Aug. Submarine killer Peter Madsen gets 21 months for prison escapeĬonvicted submarine killer escapes from prison with bomb threatĬonvicted submarine killer admits to journalist murderĭanish submariner who killed journalist won't appeal murder conviction Wall’s parents were among those in attendance. It is the task of the prosecutor to prove that he is guilty,” she told a packed Copenhagen City Court room. “It is not my client’s duty to prove that he is innocent. He said Madsen who is accused of either cutting Wall’s throat or strangling her, is not insane but “emotionally impaired with severe lack of empathy, anger and guilt.”īuch-Jepsen also quoted a court-ordered psychiatric report that described Madsen as an intelligent man “with psychopathic tendencies.”ĭefense lawyer Betina Hald Engmark called it “a horror story … but the story is not based on facts. In his final comments, Buch-Jepsen demanded Madsen is given life in prison - 16 years in Denmark, which could be extended if necessary - or locked up in a secure mental facility for as long as he’s considered a danger to others. Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen said Kim Wall may have been tied with her own stockings before Peter Madsen impaled her, and that he acted with a sexual motive. COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The prosecutor in the trial of a Danish inventor accused of torture and murder in the death of a Swedish journalist during a private submarine trip said Monday there is “a risk that he that can commit the same kind of crime again.”
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