Kim Wall trial: Submarine inventor Peter Madsen given life sentence for murdering and dismembering Swedish journalist

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Kim Wall trial: Submarine inventor Peter Madsen given life sentence for murdering and dismembering Swedish journalist

April 25th, 2018

Awake Goy

Submarine entrepreneur and inventor Peter Madsen has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering the Swedish journalist Kim Wall.

Judge Anette Burkoe said she and the two jurors agreed Ms Wall’s death was a murder, saying Madsen had not given “a trustworthy” explanation.

It was a “cynical murder” of a journalist who was performing her duties, the court said in its ruling.

Madsen, 47, has said he will appeal against his murder conviction and life sentence.

He has denied murder throughout the trial and said Ms Wall died accidentally while inside his hand-built submarine, but he has confessed to cutting up her body and throwing the body parts into the sea.

Madsen initially denied dismembering her, then confessed that he had done so and said he’d thrown her body parts into the Baltic Sea.

Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen claimed Ms Wall’s murder was sexually motivated and premeditated because Madsen brought along tools he normally didn’t take when sailing, including a saw and sharpened screwdrivers.

Madsen’s defence lawyer had argued for his acquittal on the charge of murder, saying he should only be sentenced the lesser charge of cutting Ms Wall’s body into pieces.

The cause of death has never been established but the court found Madsen “cut the body into pieces to hide what had happened.”