[Onkel Neal]

Danish killer confesses to murder of Kim Wall for first time

The Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who was handed a life prison sentence in 2018 for the killing of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, has confessed to the crime for the first time, in a television documentary.

The 49-year-old, found guilty of premeditated murder, aggravated sexual assault and desecrating a corpse, had insisted during the trial that Wall’s death, on Madsen’s homemade submarine in August 2o17, was an accident.

In The Secret Recordings with Peter Madsen, released on Wednesday morning, the journalist Kristian Linnemann asks the self-taught engineer whether he killed Wall, 30, when she went to interview him onboard the vessel. He answers “Yes”.

“It’s my fault she died,” he says. “And it’s my fault because I committed the crime. It’s all my fault … There is only one who is guilty, and that is me,” Madsen said in the documentary, produced by Discovery Networks Denmark.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...for-first-time