A Copenhagen court on Tuesday handed down a 21-month prison sentence to Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor convicted of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2017, for an attempt to escape from prison last year .
Madsen had already received a life sentence in 2018 for the murder and dismemberment of Mrs. Wall aboard his submarine, a gruesome murder that shocked Denmark.
Last year in October, Mr. Madsen from Herstedvester Prison, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen, a prisoner caught in sensational images on live TV. Wearing a shotgun and a false explosive belt, he threatened prison staff and made it about half a mile outside the prison walls before being captured by armed police officers. Footage of his arrest also showed bystanders at the scene screaming slander at Mr. Madsen.
During the sentencing in the city court in Glostrup, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Madsen was ordered on Tuesday to pay about 20 000 kroner, or about 3 200 dollars, to a psychologist who he threatened to kill during the escape attempt, according to Ekstra Bladet. make. A Danish tabloid newspaper.
Madsen accepts the result, the court said. Madsen said he decided to escape because he found the conditions in the prison unbearable, and that he became desperate after being denied visits by his partner.
Prisoners sentenced to life in prison in Denmark could be released after 12 years. The sentencing of Mr. Madsen on Tuesday is likely to be considered for early release in the future. After attempting to jail time, he was transferred to Storstrom Prison, a high-security facility.
Mrs. Wall, 30, disappeared after boarding Madsen’s homemade submarine to interview the inventor in August 2017. Her torso was later discovered on a beach in Copenhagen and Madsen gave conflicting accounts of her whereabouts before finally admitting that she had disrupted her body. He was later charged with the murder of Ms. Wall.
Despite a short career, Mrs. Wall established herself as a creative and determined journalist, reporting for, among others, The New York Times. She grew up in Trelleborg, Sweden, and graduated from the London School of Economics and earned two master’s degrees from Columbia University. She started a career in the global jogging and reported from countries like Cuba, Sri Lanka and Uganda. She was a few days from her move with her boyfriend to Beijing.
“I want to know how the world works,” she wrote for a Swedish newspaper in 2011, “and I hope I may one day learn enough to make a difference.”
A TV series, “The Investigation”, which fixates the work by the police and detectives on the case, was launched last year.