Danish inventor Peter Madsen admits to killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard home-made submarine

Wall worked as an editorial intern and reporter in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post from June to September in 2013

At the time of her disappearance in 2017, she was believed to be working on a feature story about Madsen, an eccentric self-taught engineer

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Peter Madsen admitted to murdering Swedish journalist aboard his home-made submarine. Photo: Reuters

Published: 5:57pm, 9 Sep 2020Updated: 9:50pm, 9 Sep 2020

Peter Madsen, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his home-made submarine, has admitted to the crime for the first time in a documentary broadcast on Wednesday.

The 49-year-old inventor, who was interviewed over the phone, answered “yes” to the journalist’s question about whether he killed the 30-year-old woman who was interviewing him in August 2017.

“Apart from August 10, 2017, I’ve never done anything to anyone,” Madsen said in the documentary series entitled Secret Recordings with Peter Madsen. “There is only one who is guilty, and that is me.”

In a grisly case that shocked the public, the remains of 30-year-old Wall were found in plastic bags over a series of weeks in Koge Bay, after she vanished while interviewing Madsen on his submarine.

Kim Wall worked as an editorial intern and reporter in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post from June to September in 2013. Photo: EPA

Madsen, who was arrested and detained shortly after Wall’s disappearance, claimed Wall had died during an accident on board and although he admitted cutting up her body and dumping it at sea, he denied intentionally killing her or having any sexual relations with her.

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