A Danish court on Tuesday sentenced the murderous inventor Peter Madsen to 21 months in prison for his ill-fated escape from prison last year.
Madsen, 50, was sentenced for his brief escape on October 20 from Herstedvester Prison in Denmark, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, where he was serving a life sentence for the murder of journalist Kim Wall on 2017 after inviting her to her 60-foot UC3 Nautilus for an interview. Informed Extra Bladet.
Madsen told Glostrup City court that he was released from custody after he began planning his escape in March 2019 due to poor conditions for inmates serving life sentences.
Authorities said Madsen, who has admitted to dismembering Wall, 30, but denied the murder, was armed with a fake pistol and explosives during his escape that lasted just five minutes.
He threatened a prison psychologist and an officer with an imitation pistol made of chalk material, the newspaper reported Tuesday.
At the time, Madsen also had a belt of “fake” explosives, which consisted of brushes, cables and other materials designed to look real, according to the report.
In addition to the 21-month sentence, Madsen was also ordered to pay restitution to the prison psychologist whom he threatened to kill during his attempted escape, which ended less than half a mile from prison.
Madsen had claimed that Wall died from taking toxic fumes from his custom-built subordinate, but prosecutors insisted he tortured the journalist because of violent sexual fantasies after luring her aboard jet skis. .
Prosecutors said the self-taught engineer who later lost his appeal for Wall’s murder had fantasies of spitting on women, Ekstra Bladet reported. According to reports, trial evidence showed that Wall’s body had also been impaled.
The journalist’s dismembered torso was discovered days later in Copenhagen waters, while other parts of the body stuffed in weighted bags were recovered in the following months.
Since then, Madsen has been transferred to a higher security prison in Falster, Ekstra Bladet reported.
Life sentences in Denmark typically equate to 16 years in prison, but inmates can be held longer if they are considered a threat to society.
With publishing cables