A Danish court on Tuesday handed down the life sentence of the murderous inventor Peter Madsen at the age of 21 for his fatal prison escape last year.
Madsen, 50, was sentenced for his brief escape on October 20 from Denmark’s Herstedvester prison outside Copenhagen, where he is serving a life sentence for the death of journalist Kim Wall in 2017 after he boarded her 60-foot UC3 Nautilus for ‘ invited an interview. Extra Bladet reported.
Madsen told the Glostrup City Court that he had been released from prison after he began planning his escape in March 2019 due to poor conditions for prisoners serving life sentences.
According to authorities, Madsen – who admitted to discouraging Wall (30) but denies killing her – was armed with a fake pistol and explosives during his escape which lasted only five minutes.
He threatened a prison psychologist and an officer with a fake gun made of plaster material, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Madsen also had a “fake” explosive belt on him at the time, consisting of brushes, wires and other materials that, according to the report, look like the real thing.
In addition to the 21-month sentence, Madsen was also ordered to repay the prison psychologist he threatened to kill during his escape attempt, which ended less than half a mile from the jail.
Madsen claims Wall died from toxic fumes in his specially built sub, but prosecutors insisted he tortured the journalist for violent sexual fantasies after luring her aboard the watercraft.
Prosecutors said the self-taught engineer who later lost his call for Wall’s murder had fantasies of spitting at women, reports Ekstra Bladet. Evidence from the trial allegedly showed that Wall’s body was also hung on the pole.
The cut-off torso of the journalist was discovered days later in waters outside Copenhagen, while other body parts tucked into weighted bags were recovered in subsequent months.
Madsen has meanwhile been transferred to a higher security prison in Falster, reports Ekstra Bladet.
Life imprisonment in Denmark is usually 16 years imprisonment, but prisoners can be detained longer if they are considered a threat to society.
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