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Danish court upholds sentence over submarine murder

Peter Madsen did not appeal the district court's 25 April guilty verdict for the murder of 30-year-old Kim Wall
Peter Madsen did not appeal the district court's 25 April guilty verdict for the murder of 30-year-old Kim Wall

A Danish appeals court has upheld a life sentence handed down by a lower court against Peter Madsen for the 2017 murder of a Swedish journalist aboard his homemade submarine.

Madsen, 47, had asked the Copenhagen appeals court to reduce his life term, but did not appeal the district court's 25 April guilty verdict for the murder of 30-year-old Kim Wall.

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