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Home-made submarine killer captured after breaking out of Copenhagen jail

A DANISH man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine escaped the suburban Copenhagen jail where he is serving a life sentence today but was found nearby.

The Ekstra Bladet tabloid posted a video of Peter Madsen sitting in the grass with his hands behind his back and police at a distance. According to the daily, Mr Madsen “had a belt-like object around the abdomen.”

On Twitter, police said “a man has been arrested after attempted escape. We have investigators on a site that is cordoned off.”

No other details were immediately available.

In 2018, Mr Madsen was sentenced in the Copenhagen City Court to life in prison for killing Kim Wall, a 30-year-old reporter from Sweden who he lured aboard his homemade submarine in 2017 with the promise of an interview. He dismembered her body and dumped it at sea.

Mr Madsen maintained that Ms Wall died accidentally inside the submarine  — but he has confessed to throwing her body parts into the Baltic sea.

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