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Tue Jan 16, 2018, 11:24 AM Jan 2018

Peter Madsen charged with murder of Kim Wall on submarine

Source: The Guardian

Peter Madsen charged with murder of Kim Wall on submarine

Danish prosecutor says inventor cut Swedish journalist’s throat or strangled her on board vessel

Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
Tue 16 Jan 2018 12.56 GMT

The Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been formally charged with the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, a public prosecutor has said.

Jakob Buch-Jepsen said the 46-year-old either cut Wall’s throat or strangled her after she boarded his self-built submarine for an interview in August last year.

The engineer was charged with murder and indecent handling of a corpse, the Danish prosecutor said.

Wall’s headless and dismembered torso was found floating off the coast of Copenhagen 10 days after she was reported missing, and her head, legs and clothes were discovered in bags at sea in October.

In a case that Buch-Jepsen described as “very unusual and extremely gross”, the inventor was also charged with sexual assault, without intercourse, of a particularly dangerous nature.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/16/peter-madsen-charged-with-submarine-of-kim-wall
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