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PETER MADSEN VERDICT
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
25 APRIL 2018

The verdict of the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen will be announced on April 25th around 1100 GMT.

Mr Madsen has been formally charged with murder after admitting killing and dismembering Swedish reporter Kim Wall.

The Danish prosecutor said that 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.

Madsen conceded that he did remove the limbs of Kim Wall after she died on board the UC3 Nautilus.

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 the prosecutor described as “very unusual and extremely disturbing”, the inventor was also charged with sexual assault, without intercourse, of “a particularly dangerous nature”.

Police said Madsen faced a life sentence if convicted.

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