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| Kim Wall: Severed head of Swedish journalist discovered after disappearance on Danish submarine trip | Kim Wall: Severed head of Swedish journalist discovered after disappearance on Danish submarine trip |
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| The head of Swedish journalist Kim Wall has been discovered two months after she disappeared during a submarine trip in Denmark. | The head of Swedish journalist Kim Wall has been discovered two months after she disappeared during a submarine trip in Denmark. |
| Ms Wall, a widely-travelled foreign correspondent, was allegedly murdered aboard a submarine owned by Danish inventor Peter Madsen in August. | Ms Wall, a widely-travelled foreign correspondent, was allegedly murdered aboard a submarine owned by Danish inventor Peter Madsen in August. |
| Divers found her head, legs and clothes inside weighted plastic bags. | Divers found her head, legs and clothes inside weighted plastic bags. |
| Copenhagen police investigator Jens Moeller Jensen said the body parts were found on Friday inside plastic bags, with a knife and “heavy metal pieces” to make them sink, near where Ms Wall’s naked, decapitated torso was found in August. | |
| Mr Madsen, who is in pre-trial detention, has said Ms Wall died after being accidentally hit by a heavy hatch in the submarine, but police have said 15 stab wounds were found on the torso found at sea off Copenhagen on 21 August. | Mr Madsen, who is in pre-trial detention, has said Ms Wall died after being accidentally hit by a heavy hatch in the submarine, but police have said 15 stab wounds were found on the torso found at sea off Copenhagen on 21 August. |
| A police spokesman told reporters in Copenhagen that there were no fractures in Ms Wall’s cranium. | |
| Ms Wall’s arms are still missing. | |
| The cause of death has not been established. | The cause of death has not been established. |
| A police prosecutor said earlier this week that officers had found images “which we presume to be real” of women being strangled and decapitated on Peter Madsen’s computer in a laboratory he ran. | |
| Mr Madsen said the computer searched by police was not his but was used by everyone in the laboratory. | |
| The inventor told a court Ms Wall had died when a heavy hatch inside the submarine that he was holding open swung shut. | |
| “I lose my foothold and the hatch shuts,” he said. “Kim had been severely hurt and was laying with an intense bleeding. There was a pool of blood where she had landed.” | |
| He said he had tried to bury her at sea and intended to take his own life inside the submarine. | |
| Ms Wall was an experienced foreign correspondent who had reported from Uganda, Haiti and Sri Lanka. Her mother said after she was found dead: “She gave voice to the weak, vulnerable and marginalised people. That voice had been needed for a long, long time, now it has been silenced.” | |
| Additional reporting by agencies |