COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor, will not appeal his conviction for killing a journalist aboard the submarine he built, prosecutors said, in a new twist to one of the most-watched — and most gruesome — criminal cases in recent European history. The Danish prosecutor's office said in a tweet the appeal focused solely on the sentence handed down by the Copenhagen City Court and Madsen would not be attempting to overturn the murder conviction. That would have been a stretch, considering pretty much everything about the case: Wall went missing after boarding Madsen’s submarine for a story she was writing about him, Madsen admitted to dismembering Wall’s body and burying her at sea, his laptop was filled with videos depicting extreme violence against women. The Copenhagen City Court ruled unanimously that Madsen, 47, had lured Wall, 30, onto his hand-built submarine with the promise of an interview she had been trying to get for months. “The appeal case will only concern the sentencing, and not the issue of guilt,” the Copenhagen District prosecutor’s office wrote on Twitter.
Danish inventor Peter Madsen appeals his life sentence for murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall onboard his homemade submarine. He has not appealed his conviction.