![]() On Tuesday a support group set up in his honour distanced itself from the inventor. Able to submerge in approximately 20 seconds, the boat can carry up to eight people to 100 metres below sea level. Madsen was known to regularly take fans and submarine enthusiasts on tours through the Øresund strait. Measuring almost 18 metres and weighing 40 tonnes, it can be operated by one person from its control room. The Nautilus, which was Madsen’s third design for a “midget submarine” vessel and became the largest privately built submarine when it was unveiled in 2008, has been his most spectacular invention to date. For years, a team built around him and the aerospace engineer Kristian von Bengtson have worked on designing a rocket-driven spacecraft. “No matter what, we find it very positive that she has been found now.”Īn entrepreneur, artist, submarine builder and aerospace engineer, Madsen, 46, nicknamed Rocket, has enjoyed a cult status in his native Denmark. “It doesn’t change my client’s explanation that an accident happened,” Betina Hald Engmark told Danish tabloid BT. On Wednesday Madsen’s lawyer said her client still maintains that Wall died accidentally, and that the discovery of the journalist’s torso did not mean he was guilty of killing her. The case is not open to the public to protect further investigations, police said. Madsen appeared before a judge on 12 August for preliminary questioning. ![]() Police refloated the Nautilus and towed it into harbour for investigation, later suggesting that Madsen may have sunk the boat on purpose to hide evidence. He told personnel on the boat that rescued him that there had been a problem with the ballast tank and something had gone wrong when he tried to repair it. At about 11am, Madsen jumped into the water after the submarine started to sink. The submarine was later also reported missing, and rescue crews located it shortly after 10am on 11 August in Køge Bay, south of the Danish capital. Her boyfriend reported her missing in the early hours the next day. She was last seen on the vessel by several people in waters off Copenhagen on the evening of 10 August. Originally from Sweden, Wall had degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and had written for publications including the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Time and the Guardian.ĭanish authorities had been searching for the reporter since she failed to return from an interview with Madsen on board the Nautilus. ![]() He consistently denied charges of murder and sexual assault, claiming Wall died by accident from carbon dioxide poisoning, although he admitted to dismembering her body and tossing it into the sea in a state of panic.Peter Madsen’s private submarine sits on a pier in Copenhagen harbour. Madsen was found guilty on all three charges he faced: premeditated murder, the indecent handling of a corpse and “sexual relations other than intercourse of a particularly dangerous nature,” evidenced by stab wounds inside and outside Wall’s genital area. Her head and legs were found weeks later. ![]() She disappeared and her torso washed up on an island near Copenhagen on August 21. Kim Wall murder: Danish inventor Peter Madsen given life sentence AFP PHOTO / TT News Agency AND FAMILY HANDOUT / Tom WALL / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / TOM WALL - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS = TOM WALL/AFP/Getty Images TOM WALL/AFP/Getty Images This family handout photo released on Augshows Swedish journalist Kim Wall who was allegedly on board a submarine south of Copenhagen before it sank on August 11, 2017.A Swedish journalist missing since August 11 after interviewing the inventor of a huge do-it-yourself submarine died in an accident on board the vessel and the inventor buried her at sea, Danish police said on August 21, 2017. ![]()
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