Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor’s homemade submarine.
Self-taught engineer and inventor Peter Madsen, 46, who is married, has been accused of Wall’s death.
Kim Wall disappeared after she went on a trip with Peter Madsen in his submarine on August 10.
Madsen, a Dane, was arrested and charged with
Wall's death after his submarine sank and he was rescued. Charges he has
since denied.
Instead, Madsen, who has been in custody since
August 11, claims that Wall, 30, died in an accident when she was hit by
a heavy hatch cover on board his submarine.
His lawyer Betina Hald Engmark said she had been
informed of the development, but had not received any material or
evidence to support or refute the claim.
Police identified a headless female torso that
washed ashore in Copenhagen later in August as Wall‘s, but a cause of
death was not immediately determined.
On Saturday a police spokesman told reporters in Copenhagen that there were no fractures to Wall’s skull.
The police also said that body parts, a knife and some of Wall’s clothes in bags weighted down by bits of metal were found in Koge Bay on Friday by Danish navy divers who are assisting them.
Police spokesman Jens Moller Jensen told reporters
on Saturday that the body parts will be investigated further to try and
determine a cause of death.
He said that the Madsen and his lawyers had not had time yet to react to the new evidence.
Madsen said the computer searched by police was not his but was used by everyone in the laboratory.
The case is still on-going.
Source; Reuters
No comments:
Post a Comment