Danish submarine death: Inventor faces another charge
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COPENHAGEN — Danish authorities on Friday filed another charge against the inventor of a home-made submarine who is suspected in the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall whose headless torso was found off Copenhagen, police said.
Peter Madsen, already charged with preliminary manslaughter in Wall’s death, now faces a charge of indecent handling of a corpse, according to chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen. Madsen denies wrongdoing, saying she died in an accident aboard the 40-ton, nearly 18 metre-long (60 foot-long) submarine and he buried her at sea.
Wall was last seen alive aboard the submarine Aug. 10 and her naked torso was found Monday. Police say Wall’s head, arms and legs had been deliberately cut off. They also say that a piece of metal had been attached to the torso “likely with the purpose to make it sink,” and marks on it indicated that someone had tried to press air out of the body so that it wouldn’t float.
Under Denmark’s penal code, a manslaughter charge carries a prison sentence of between five years and life, and indecent handling of corpses carries a fine or up to six months in jail.
